ArcGIS Online focused projects (Apps, Story Maps, Web Maps)
The Conservation Lands Foundation (CLF) is a nonprofit organization based in Colorado, USA. CLF is the official umbrella organization for the Friends Grassroots Network, a group of more than 60 community-based “Friends” organizations who work to protect their local public lands…
Report by Daniel Specht The DRC Mapathon was launched in response to a polio outbreak to give the World Health Organization and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention an idea of where the population was located within the Democratic…
During Hurricane Florence, FEMA requested assistance from GISCorps to build a map journal to catalog and centralize all their activities and products. An urgent request resulted in recruiting Katie Pickett, a volunteer from Washington, D.C., for this project. Katie created…
The following post was authored by Volunteer Adam Hufnagel with contributions from Humanity Road's Cat Graham and photos provided for use by USCG Petty Officer 3rd Class Shannon Kearney. When a powerful storm hits, it takes the urgent and thoughtful…
See current crowdsourcing work from NAPSG and GISCorps on the NAPSG 2020 Crowdsourced Photos Hub Hurricane Florence made landfall at Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, on the morning of September 14, 2018. Although it had been downgraded to a Category 1…
Hurricane Michael made landfall near Mexico Beach, Florida, as a Category 4 hurricane on October 10, 2018, with maximum sustained winds of 155 mph and life-threatening storm surges. The hurricane tore through the Florida Panhandle into Georgia, the Carolinas, and Virginia,…
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,…
In early July, parts of Western Japan were devastated by a series of disasters caused by torrential rain, including landslides and severe flooding. One area hit particularly hard was the town of Mabi in Okayama prefecture, where flood waters as…
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…
Over the weekend of 08-March-2018, 309 volunteers from around the world participated in a Mapathon to map structures in Tanganyika Province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in support of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. The event was hosted…