GISCorps–Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Projects
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…
GISCorps volunteer develops Vulnerability Indices Web Map - Nepal By: Brian Baldwin In the aftermath of the Nepal Earthquake, getting access to information relevant to humanitarian programming has been a big problem. Baseline data are key to humanitarian response both…
GISCorps volunteer assisted with downloading and parsing OpenStreetMap – Syria The humanitarian and human rights communities are increasingly interested in the effects of conflicts and natural disasters on cultural heritage. Though not as pressing a concern as the immediate provision…
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap’s Map4Nepal Project Forty-six GISCorps volunteers from 10 countries responded to the call for volunteers to the Nepal Earthquake in 2015 and digitized various features on OpenStreetMap shortly after the quake hit. In total volunteers logged over 440 hours…
Mapping of Malakal, Nsanje District (Partnered with Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team - HOT) Volunteers: Tim Hohn (Project Manager), Heather Milton (GISCorps Project Manager), Jared Pilbeam, Takeo Shibata, Ian Cable, Alison DeGraff, Laxman Sharma, Oula Seitsonen, Snead Prasad, Suthakaran Sundaralingham, Katie Pickett,…
Mapping of Malakal, South Sudan (a partnership with Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team) GISCorps partnered with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) to map the city of Malakal, South Sudan to provide baseline data for the humanitarian response to the ongoing conflicts between government…
GISCorps-Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Projects OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a project that creates and distributes free geographic data for the world; Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) projects typically arise from an immediate humanitarian need, and provide valuable information assets during a crisis…
We received a request from Humanitarian OpenStreetMap (HOT) shortly after super storm Sandy hit the northeastern US in October/November 2012. They were interested in deploying the “expert” crowd (GISCorps volunteers) on a crowdsourcing project that they launched shortly after the…
Volunteers assisted in a disaster preparedness project in Indonesia Earlier this year, eleven GISCorps volunteers were deployed to a project with Humanitarian OpenStreetMap (HOT). This was our second collaborative project with HOT (first one in Samoa) and this time the work…