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Bringing together West African OSM communities: OSM & GIS workshops in Lomé, Togo
OSM & GIS worshops in Togo in May 2018
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...
Growing OSM Zambia through the Nethope Device Challenge Grant
Guest blog: Trudy Hope, OSM Zambia lead
UniqueMappersTeam Collaboration with Transparent Earth Nigeria Ltd.
Guest blog - Valerie Odeam Osuamkpe (Ag.Team Secretary General,UMT) and Victor N.Sunday (Team Coordinator)
Map Completeness Estimation and Experimental Analytics for Health
Over the last couple of years, HOT has been working with partners like the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) and the Botswana Ministry of...
HOT Hosted a Mapathon in the State University of Semarang
In April 16-18, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Indonesia collaborated with the State University of Semarang (UNNES) to host a mapathon for the capital of...
Agetic Training Success with OSM Mali
OSM Mali run training for Communication Technologies Agency, Agetic Mali
Field surveying in Botswana to support the National Malaria Programme
Although a lot of progress has been made to combat malaria, and yearly deaths worldwide have declined from over 1 million in 2000 to...
Motorcycle Mapping - BodaBodas and 'The Knowledge'
Uganda’s capital city, Kampala, has Uber taxis. It is crazy. They are highly unreliable, not surprisingly given the traffic behaviour here - which could...
Engaging with Youth, HOT’s Uni Battle Map Winner Becomes the First YouthMappers Chapter in Indonesia
Youth is a critical partner in carrying out HOT’s mission. We worked together with university students and young people since the very inception of...
3 days of OSM and GIS training kicks off in Mali!
Guest blog; Nathalie Sidibe, OSM Mali
Microgrants 2018: HOT supports eight OSM communities!
We are pleased to announce the launch of this year’s Microgrant programme, which will support communities across South America, the Caribbean, West Africa and...
Some Powerful Map Outputs From The Ugandan Refugee Response
Image: Waiting for Water - Long queues of Jerrycans at the dried-out borehole near BidiBidi Refugee Settlement
Mapping to support local NGOs in Kenya
As part of HOT’s mission to expand local mapping communities and ensure that HOT’s partners contribute to the sustainability of OpenStreetMap, our partner, Salesforce,...
OSM Quality Reporting: Malaria Prevention
Last year, The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team kicked off work to analyze OpenStreetMap (OSM) for the fight against malaria. Our goal is to provide organizations...
