GISCorps–Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Projects
Three GISCorps volunteers, Emmanuel Jolaiya from Nigeria, Sharon Omojah from Kenya, and Katarina Spasenovic from Italy have stepped up to meet the challenge of helping Crowd2Map Tanzania (https://crowd2map.org/) mentor new mappers and working to put Tanzania on the map. Crowd2Map…
Crowd2Map Tanzania is a crowdsourced mapping project set up by Tanzania Development Trust, a volunteer-run UK charity set up in 1975 to help grassroots projects in rural Tanzania. Crowd2Map aims to put rural Tanzania on the map. Since 2015, they…
GISCorps volunteers respond to 12 disaster response projects during and after hurricanes and earthquakes Summer 2017 was a busy year for GISCorps volunteers. After unprecedented consecutive natural disasters between June and November, 150 volunteers contributed over 1300 hours of their…
Sustainable Innovations (SI), a US based nonprofit organization requested GIS assistance in late 2016. SI harvests rooftop rainwater to provide safe drinking water to rural communities in the state of Rajasthan India. Currently, SI collects 15 million liters of rainwater…
GISCorps Volunteers Respond to Crisis in Haiti from Hurricane Matthew On 4 October 2016, Hurricane Matthew, a Category 4 hurricane, came ashore on the western half of Haiti, causing extensive flooding, mudslides, and damage to roads, houses, and the water…
Volunteers assist DHN in Burundi The request for volunteers came from DHN. This project was originally intended to improve the quality of hospital and school data within the country of Burundi to support the United Nations Office for Coordination of…
GISCorps volunteer conducts spatial analysis post Sri Lanka floods GISCorps Volunteer: Denis Krivoguz, Teaching assistant in Kerch State Maritime Technological University Blake Girardot, President of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) On 15 May 2016 Sri Lanka was hit by a…
Volunteers digitizing in OSM for flood in Sri Lanka Since the beginning of the week of May 15th, large areas of Sri Lanka have been deluged by torrential rains caused by a slow moving tropical depression in the Bay of…
Afghanistan Earthquake GISCorps Response A magnitude 7.5 earthquake struck Afghanistan on October 26, 2015. Within hours the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) activated an online work project to support the local OpenStreetMap (OSM) community by digitizing features from existing imagery. In the…
Volunteers digitized features after Hurricane Patricia Hurricane Patricia was the most intense hurricane ever recorded in the Western Hemisphere in terms of barometric pressure and sustained winds. Patricia also grew faster than any Western Hemisphere storm on record, growing from a…