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The mapkibera project (mapkibera.org) is training local people of Kibera, Nairobi to create and own their map with OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap being used by search & rescue teams after the Haiti earthquake.

The community responded rapidly creating the best map resources available. 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 aims 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mapping is uniquely valuable to humanitarian work, especially in places where base map data is often scarce and out of date.

Objectives of H.O.T.

Core Mission

• connecting point between humanitarian actors and open mapping communities
• remote data creation during crises
• collection and organization of existing data sources
• possible deployments to the field
• distribution point for free data

Advocacy, Training and Outreach

• mapping parties
• Communicating and meeting with humanitarian actors 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

In March 2013, HOT was officially recognized as a 501(c)(3) organization

• Humanitarian_OSM_Team/U.S. Bylaws
• Humanitarian_OSM_Team/U.S. Articles of Incorporation

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

• HOT Package

Projects

Working Groups

• see Working Groups SubPage

Tutorships

• see Tutorships SubPage

Current

• 2012 Activation for South and North-Kivu, DR Congo
• 2012-2013 Mali Crisis
• En:WikiProject Ivory Coast
• Ongoing support to Haiti Earthquake and Cholera Recovery
• Horn of Africa Famine

Past

• Philippines - Storm Ondoy
• Iran -- Post-Election Crisis
• Gaza
• AlbanianFloodingCrisisCamp
• 2010 07 Pakistan Floods
• 2010 Alagoas Flooding
• 2010 Yushu earthquake
• 2010 Chile earthquake
• 2010 Storm Megi/Juan
• 2010 Colombia floods
• 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
• 2011 Samoa Cyclone Simulation
• 2012 Flooding in Senegal
• 2012 May - Refugee Camps in Ethiopia & Kenya (Camp Roberts)

Other H.O.T. Activities to Date

• MapKibera Project
• Map Kibera Import .. help bring Map Kibera into OpenStreetMap
• Humanitarian_OSM_Tags
• Humanitarian OSM Team Logo (an artistic project)
• 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

HOT in the News

• Mapping a Way to a Better Future -AusAID

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.

• May 2012 Harry's 20 minute overview to a geotech audience + similar slides used at PICNIC (video)
• 2011 Update about HOT's work in Indonesia
• 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 + similar slides presented in Shanghai (video]
• 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/
• http://www.slideshare.net/Sev_hotosm/jrc-openstreetmap-editing-and-tasking-mechanisms-20130326

• See also, a selection of relevant HOT slidedecks at: http://www.slideshare.net/wonderchook, http://www.slideshare.net/nicolas_chavent or http://www.slideshare.net/Sev_hotosm/

Posters

• [2]

Meeting Notes

• Notes of Meetups and Board Meetings

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

• Humanitarian OSM Team/Interested OSM Users
• Humanitarian OSM Team/Members

External resources

• [3] Humanitarian Response Portal, Administrative Boundaries, Populated places
• [4] FAO, International and Administrative boundaries
• [5] UN Second level Administrative boundaries (1:1'000'000)
• [6] MapLibrary.org, Administrative boundaries in development countries (License?)
• [7] Administrative boundaries (Redistribution, or commercial use, is not allowed without prior permission)
• [8] NGIS Populated places Geographic name files by countries
• [9] FreeGisData List of GIS Ressources
• Oxfam recent emergencies - google map. boo!
• Wikinews.org categories: politics & conflicts disasters & accidents- open licensed news