The Mountain Rescue Association (MRA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to saving lives through rescue and education. MRA maintains a Mission Data Portal where Search and Rescue teams across the United States and Canada enter data about their missions using an…
The Camp Fire burned 153,336 acres in Butte County, California, in November 2018. The fire destroyed almost 14,000 residences, over 500 commercial buildings, and over 400 other structures in and around the city of Paradise. In the days and weeks…
The Train Campaign team contacted GISCorps in the spring of 2018 and requested help with online map creation. Two volunteers, Ellen Phillips and Linda Colin, were selected. The following story was written by Ellen Phillips. Karen Christensen of the Barrington Institute…
Volunteers Ajinkya Jadhav, Alexis Handelman, Amanda Nunley, David Axelson, Elizabeth Robinson, Ellen Nodwell, Gergely Puskas, Holly Torpey, Jessica Beres, Karen Chadwick, Maria Barabas, Michael Ruppel, Richard Kotapish, Richard Cornell, Sofia Stouki, Tarig Ahmed and Wendi French Summary On August 24-28,…
From June 15th until July 29th 2018, William Ouellette, Senior GIS Engineer at TomTom BV in Gent, Belgium, was deployed to an on site mission in the Central African Republic (CAR). The request for a volunteer came from WWF (World…
This project was initiated by Grand Staircase Escalante Partners (GSEP) and Puente Institute as an effort to collect data from the public on observations and disturbances within the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument. The collected data will then be used for formulating…
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…
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 Volunteer Mentors/Advises in a Project in Hunza Valley in Northern Pakistan By Miguel Garriga, Geographic Systems, LLC, GISCorps Volunteer I originally joined GIS Corps in 2004, shortly after finding out more about the group at the ESRI Conference. I…
GISCorps Helps United Nations High Commission for Refugees Map Resources for Refugees in Cairo, Egypt By Mark Salling, GISCorps Core Committee This past fall, Lori Quinn, from North Carolina, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission, was deployed to a UNHCR project that involved…