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The community responded rapidly creating the best map resources available anywhere. Our maps continue to be used for redevelopment planning, and H.O.T. people are currently on-the-ground in Haiti giving training in use and improvement of the data
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (H.O.T.) ( hot.openstreetmap.org) coordinates the creation, production and distribution of free mapping resources to support humanitarian relief efforts in many places around the world. Launched in January 2009 and incorporated in August 2010 as a US NGO, it aim to apply the principles and activities of open source and open data sharing to humanitarian response and economic development and support the growth of the OpenStreetMap project. Collaborative mapping is uniquely valuable to humanitarian work, especially in places where base map data is often scarce and out of date.
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Objectives of H.O.T.
- Core Mission
- connecting point between humanitarian and open mapping communities
- remote data creation during crisis
- collection and organization of existing data sources
- deployments to the field possible
- distribution point for free data
- Advocacy, Training and Outreach
- mapping parties
- speaking, writing, meetings in humanitarian and United Nations technical communities
- Thinking and Design
- promotion of crowd-sourcing and simple web standards for data sharing
- technical improvements to OSM and OSGeo in response to field requirements (offline support, verification, format adaptors, multi-master sync..)
Governance
Membership
- Main article: Humanitarian OSM Team/Members
Board
- Main article: Humanitarian OSM Team/Board Elections
Incorporation
As of Q4 2011, the HOT is preparing an application to be considered a 501(c)(3) organization.[1]
Haiti-inspired medium term strategy and proposal
Many issues and plans emerged from the Haiti response, leading to a medium term plan for HOT, access the Humanitarian OSM Team/Haiti Strategy And Proposal
HOT Package
Projects
Current
- En:WikiProject Ivory Coast
- Ongoing support to Haiti Earthquake and Cholera Recovery
- AlbanianFloodingCrisisCamp They are flooding again!
- Horn of Africa Famine
Past
- 2011 Samoa Cyclone Simulation
- Philippines - Storm Ondoy
- Iran -- Post-Election Crisis
- Gaza
- Humanitarian OSM Team Logo (an artistic project)
- 2010 07 Pakistan Floods
- 2010 Alagoas Flooding
- 2010 Yushu earthquake
- 2010 Chile earthquake
- 2010 Storm Megi/Juan
- 2010 Colombia floods
- MapKibera Project
- 2010 Shkoder Flooding
- 2010-03 Cyclone Tomas over Wallis and Futuna
- 2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami
- Libya crisis
- 2011 Christchurch earthquake
- 2011 Rio de Janeiro Flooding
- 2011 Richelieu river flooding
Other H.O.T. Activities to Date
- Map Kibera Import .. help bring Map Kibera into OpenStreetMap
- Humanitarian_OSM_Tags
- Routing, Import of data and GPS mapping in Haiti following Hurricane Gustav
- Coordinating travel scholarships for developing world mappers to attend State of the Map 2009 & 2011
- Technical advising in Palestinian West Bank mapping
- UN and OSM
- Advocacy and Mapping Parties in Egypt, Kenya, South Africa
- FreeMapIndia 2008 Workshop Tour
- OSM training following Cyclone Nargis
- Opening and Import of UN map data for Sudan
- Humanitarian_OSM_Team/Knight News Challenge Proposal
Communications
- HOT mailing list - Fairly low traffic announcements and some discussion; ~300 subscribers as of 24 Nov 2011.
- HOT blog - Details of some HOT activities (RSS) posted by Mikel Maron, Tim Waters, Kate Chapman, and Harry Wood. Feel free to contact them with a suggested text for blog posts.
- OSM Tasking Manager - for coordinating the mapping tasks
-
hotosm - Twitter feed with quick-fire messages and links related to HOT (RSS)
- 2x Month IRC Meetings "HOT Chats"
- Facebook Page
Presentations
Presentations on HOT activities. Open-licensed slides are available for use in your own talk.
- 2011 Update about HOT's work in Indonesia
- Humanitarian OSM Team/Haiti at SOTM
- OSM work in 12-Jan Haiti Earthquaek response at UNOSAT - World Bank and The European Uniono Joint Research Centre workshop on Damage Assessment (Geneva 26/27 April 2010)
- FOSSGIS 2010, lightning talk about crisismapping in Haiti by John07 Slides (German): [1]
- http://www.slideshare.net/chippy/openstreetmap-using-tools-services-hows-its-changed-humanitarian-response
- Harry - Aid Information Challenge slides
- Haiti Mapping BarCamp Canberra 2010 (Shoaib)
- gis-news.de
- CartONG at UNGIWG to represent OSM H.O.T.
- http://thinkwhere.wordpress.com/2009/07/08/reuters-alertnet-mapping-workshop/
- http://brainoff.com/weblog/2008/11/17/1374
- http://thinkwhere.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/geong-2008-forum-unsdit-open-data/
Meeting Notes
Related Initiatives and Partnerships
- DevelopmentSeed has imported FAO Africover to OSM
- Data sharing through UNSDI-t
- Ushahidi and Sahana integrate OpenStreetMap
- JumpStart International in Palestine
- Mapping & Planning Support (MAPS) - Canberra, Australia
See also
References
- ↑ According to HOT email; see archived version at http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/hot/2011-November/001146.html .
External resources
- Oxfam recent emergencies - google map. boo!
- Wikinews.org categories: politics & conflicts disasters & accidents- open licensed news
