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Recap of the UN World Data Forum: using OpenStreetMap for the Sustainable Development Goals
Last week I attended the UN World Data Forum to share the work the HOT community is doing with our partners towards achieving the...
Learning from HOT Indonesia
From 8th to 29th January 2017, I am visiting HOT Indonesia in a Knowledge Exchange Program. Up to now, HOT has executed two projects...
Ramani Huria Trains Secondary School Students During STEM Boot Camp
Over the first week of January 2017, a group of 60 secondary school students gathered at Marian University College, Bagamoyo for a ground-breaking training...
Making use cases for crowd sourced financial services data in Uganda
How can individuals, businesses and government adapt the process, and reliability of crowdsourced financial services data collection, for planning, decision making and financial inclusion....
OpenStreetMap Workshop at The Pacific GIS and Remote Sensing Conference (University of the South Pacific)
The OpenStreetMap (OSM) community in the Pacific Islands is small but growing. This year, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) held an OSM workshop as...
HOT Indonesia Launches a Tasking Manager and Pidie Mapathon in Response to Aceh Earthquake.
At 5.00 am Wednesday (7/12/16), a magnitude 6.5 earthquake shook Pidie Jaya District, Aceh Province. The epicentre is located at 5.25 N and 96.24...
Boosting Spatial Data Awareness and Participation, HOT Indonesia Hosts OSMGeoWeek Talkshow
November 13th–19th is celebrated annually as Geography Awareness Week. Also known as OSMGeoWeek, it aims to foster awareness in geography, spatial data and its usage...
Ramani Huria Closing Workshop: Reflection & New Direction
November 7th & 8th marked the beginning of a new era for Ramani Huria - a project that over the past year has brought...
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...
Collaborating with University Students, HOT Hosts a Mapathon at the Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember in Surabaya
Data infrastruktur vital yang tidak lengkap, tidak mutakhir dan tidak terorganisir secara sistematis menjadi salah satu hambatan besar dalam upaya penciptaan rencana kontinjensi kebencanaan....
Missed the HOT Summit? Watch it online!
Last month (September), more than 150 HOT community members and partners from around the world attended the 2016 HOT Summit in Brussels. The Summit...
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Mapping Dar es Salaam's Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Facilities
WaSH is a collective term for water, sanitation and hygiene. While each is a separate field of work, they are interdependent in nature. After...
Help Disaster Management in Surabaya by Mapping Remotely
Early this year, major parts of Surabaya were inundated by floods. Occasional event such as this may paralyze economic activities and put its citizens’...
Hurricane Matthew Update
Hurricane Matthew as predicted caused catastrophic damage to Haiti that is still recovering from the 2010 earthquake. The main damage is located in western...
Hurricane Matthew
The Humanitarian OpenSteetMap Team (HOT) has activated to provide geographic base data in areas affected by Hurricane Matthew. Category 4 Hurricane Matthew continues to...
