Nate Smith
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Bio
Nate is a product manager working to build mapping products that solve tough societal challenges. He has been a long time member of HOT and served as Director of Technology for HOT from 2017 to 2019. Currently, he is the Head of Product for maps at Gojek. He oversees business and product development for maps across Southeast Asia.
Nate has over ten years of expertise in building mapping products in emerging markets across Africa and Asia. His experience has focused on building solutions for humanitarian response and solving societal challenges with open source and open data. He has rich experience in OpenStreetMap and satellite imagery, and he has contributed to the development of OpenAerialMap, Tasking Manager, MapCampaigner, and many of HOT’s tools used today.
Posts
Open Cities Africa Kicks off in Kampala
The latest installment of the Open Cities project, Open Cities Africa, from the World Bank kicked off last week in Kampala. We were there...
Collaborating with IOM, the UN Migration Agency, on OpenStreetMap
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) has recently signed a cooperation agreement with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), the UN's Migration Agency. This new...
Analyzing OpenStreetMap for the fight against malaria
The fight against malaria with OpenStreetMap (OSM) gets a boost today. HOT won a grant from Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative funded by the...