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Field Mapping is the Future: A Tasking Manager Workflow Using ODK (available in English, Spanish, Portuguese & French)

Field mapping by local people is key to the future of open mapping. However, the tools available for field mapping—despite many being of high quality—do not form a coherent ecosystem to unleash the potential of community field mapping. Something is missing! Could it be a Tasking Manager for Field Mapping?

Ivan Buendía Gayton - 24 August, 2022

Global

Data Principles

At HOT, open mapping communities and program teams face unique challenges in how we work with data:

Paul Uithol, Jessica Pechmann, Shazmane Mandjee Rehamtula, Claudio de los Reyes, Leen D'hondt - 22 July, 2022

Global

Open Cities Africa: Bamako - Cartographie communautaire pour un Bamako résilient

Le projet Open Cities Africa, " Cartographie communautaire pour un Bamako résilient ", initié en 2020, s'est achevé en mai 2022. L'objectif de ce projet financé par la Banque mondiale consistait à mettre en évidence le besoin d'infrastructures d'information pour développer et renforcer la résilience urbaine à Bamako, au Mali.

Shazmane Mandjee Rehamtula, Risham Habib - 28 June, 2022

Mali

Les Données Géospatiales Libres Dans La Gestion De l’environnement : Contexte, Opportunités et Défis

Les données géospatiales libres dans la gestion de l’environnement : contexte, opportunités et défis » fût le thème abordé lors du webinaire organisé par...

Nikoyo Emougou Yves Emmanuel - 28 June, 2022

Global

Open Geospatial Data in Environmental Management: Context, Opportunities and Challenges

The webinar was organized by the Humanitarian open mapping Community Working Group. It showcased initiatives that use open source geospatial data for environmental management...

Nikoyo Emougou Yves Emmanuel - 28 June, 2022

Global

Open Cities Africa: Bamako - Community Mapping for a Resilient Bamako

With ‘Community Mapping for a Resilient Bamako’, HOT was able to contribute to data sharing, raise awareness of flooding, and build the capacity of the community for the collection and use of flood risk data.

Shazmane Mandjee Rehamtula, Risham Habib - 24 June, 2022

Mali

MapMalawi’s Dzaleka Mapping Project- OSM Mapping for People Living in Protracted Crisis

MapMalawi is a newly established non-governmental organisation (NGO), founded in December 2020 by two Malawian girls, Ndapile Mkuwu and Zola Manyungwa.

Ndapile Mkuwu, Zola Manyungwa - 18 June, 2022

Malawi

SiPetaniDKI: Urban Farming as a solution for climate change adaptation in Jakarta.

Originally published in IDN Times

Dhana Kencana, Adhitya Dido Widyanto - 6 June, 2022

Global

La cartographie en situation de conflit

Des événements et des expériences récentes, dont les événements survenus l'an dernier en Afghanistan et la guerre en Ukraine, ont incité HOT - et l'ensemble de la communauté de cartographie humanitaire - à réexaminer ce qui peut être fait dans le context de OpenStreetMap, sur le plan éthique et pratique, pour aider les populations touchées par des conflits.

Paul Uithol, Shazmane Mandjee Rehamtula, Jessica Pechmann, Ivan Buendía Gayton - 9 May, 2022

Global, Afghanistan, Ukraine

Mapping in Conflict

Recent events and experiences, including last year’s developments in Afghanistan and the war in Ukraine, have prompted HOT—and the wider humanitarian mapping community—to revisit what can be ethically and practically done to help people caught in conflict within the context of OSM.

Paul Uithol, Jessica Pechmann, Ivan Buendía Gayton, Shazmane Mandjee Rehamtula - 9 May, 2022

Global, Afghanistan, Ukraine

DRC et Haïti, un transfert de connaissances inter-communautaire

Lorsqu'il est devenu évident que le projet de collaboration entre HOT et l'organisation communautaire COSMHANNE en Haïti nécessitait un volet de formation technique OSM en français, la communauté OSM RDC est intervenue.

Muluba Bienvenu, Wendy Delva, Claire Halleux, Shazmane Mandjee Rehamtula, Pete Masters, Jackson Mumbere, Christian Muyaya, Adler Salvador - 3 May, 2022

Haiti

DRC x Haiti Peer-to-Peer Knowledge Transfer

When it became clear that the collaborative project between HOT and the COSMHANNE community organisation in Haiti would need a technical OSM training component in French, the OSM DRC community stepped in.

Muluba Bienvenu, Wendy Delva, Claire Halleux, Shazmane Mandjee Rehamtula, Pete Masters, Jackson Mumbere, Christian Muyaya, Adler Salvador - 3 May, 2022

Haiti

New open mapping actors in Ecuador

The collaboration of experienced free culture activists with new mappers is renewing the landscape of collaborative cartography in Ecuador.

27 April, 2022

Global

Nuevos actores del mapeo abierto en Ecuador

La colaboración de experimentados activistas de la cultura libre con nuevos mapeadores esta renovando el panorama de la cartografía colaborativa en Ecuador.

Juan Arellano Valdivia - 27 April, 2022

Global

Open Mapping News from LATAM

2022 seems like a good year for the Latin American OSM community, let's see what new activities are being developed in the countries of the region.

23 March, 2022

Global