Recent Updates

Syria Activation Update: Our progress so far

Posted by joseph on Feb, 6 2013

After a week and a half of work on the current Syria activation, we have made pleasing progress and have seen some fantastic results. Volunteers have begun mapping highlighted areas from the available Bing aerial imagery, the first three of which have been completed: Damascus Aleppo Homs A massive thanks to everyone who contributed to these. Also please be aware that we're grateful to anyone that traces areas of Syria not covered by a task. Having said that, I've just added the next three jobs to the Tasking Manager: Hama

Activation pour le Mali

Posted by pierre.beland on Feb, 1 2013

Cette activation fait suite aux discussions entre HOT et le Bureau des Nations Unies pour la coordination des affaires humanitaires pour le Mali (UNOCHA-Mali). Les efforts en cours au Mali sont très utiles pour les organisations humanitaires. Pour soutenir le système des clusters et la communauté humanitaire, on nous demande de poursuivre la cartographie de base en cours et de contribuer à la géolocalisation des données existantes pour les services de base. Le 16 janvier 2013, UNOCHA-Mali et ses partenaires humanitaires ont souligné la situation d'urgence complexe au Mali. 228.920 de personnes sont déplacées à l'intérieur du Mali.

Mali Activation

Posted by pierre.beland on Feb, 1 2013

This Activation follows discussions between HOT and the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for Mali (UNOCHA-Mali). The ungoing efforts to map Mali are very helpfull to humanitarian organizations. To support the Clusters coordination system and the humanitarian community, we are asked to continue the ungoing base mapping and to contribute to the geolocation of existing datasets for basic services. On Jan 16 2013, the UNOCHA-Mali and his humanitarian partners have highlighted the complex emergency situation in Mali. An estimated 228,920 people are displaced inside Mali. There are an estimated 144,446 Malian refugees in neighbouring countries.

OpenIR meets with the Indonesian Team

Posted by Katrina E. on Feb, 1 2013

On Monday, the HOT Indonesian team met with Juhee and Arlene from OpenIR. This group of MIT affiliates have started a pilot study in Indonesia, specifically Jakarta and Kalimantan. They have created a portal where infrared imagery can be more easily retrieved and used. Their aims are to map ecological features and risks as revealed by the infrared satellite imagery. Feel free to check out their work here. [inline:Selection_349.png] While they were here they experienced the Jakarta floods and so deployed a Ushahidi instance. They hope to use OpenIR for flood management purposes. They met with our team to get some input on the portal and what direction they should go in.

De retour au Tchad, trois mois après le démarrage du projet EUROSHA Tchad

Posted by nicolas on Jan, 31 2013

Je viens d'atterrir à N'Djamena (Tchad) pour le compte de HOT. J'y rejoins l'équipe de mappers du projet EUROSHA Tchad dont j'avais organisé la mise en place à N'Djamena et Goré à l'automne dernier (Octobre/ Novembre 2012 – voir le billet de blog ici). Cela s'était fait en étroite coordination avec ACRA et France Volontaires, les partenaires de HOT sur ce projet.

A return to Chad three months after the set up of the EUROSHA mapping team

Posted by nicolas on Jan, 31 2013

I just landed in Ndjamena (Chad) for HOT. I am joining again the team of mappers of the EUROSHA Chad project that I helped setting up their activities in N’Djamena and Goré last fall (October/ November – see blog post) in close coordination with ACRA and France Volontaires, HOT’s partners on this project. This is an interesting time for the EUROSHA project

La communauté OSM_SN s’étend à la Casamance, Sénégal

Posted by Augustin Doury on Jan, 30 2013

( English version here) Suite aux derniers évènements articulants les communautés OSM naissantes à Dakar, Thies, Saint-Louis et Rufisque, la semaine passée fut l’occasion d’un évènement majeur pour HOT et la communauté OSM_SN : les débuts du projet OSM en Casamance au sud du Sénégal, région la plus verdoyante du pays, tenante d’un potentiel majeur de développement entravé par une situation conflictuelle depuis les années 80.

The Openstreetmap_Senegal (OSM_SN) community is expanding to the region of Casamance in Senegal

Posted by Augustin Doury on Jan, 30 2013

( Version française ici) After having established burgeoning OSM communities in Dakar, Thies, Saint-Louis and Rufisque, HOT and OSM_SN have had the amazing opportunity to start an OSM project in Casamance. Situated in the South of Senegal, Casamance is the greenest region in Senegal. It is an area with amazing potential—a potential impeded by political conflict since the 80s.

Syria Activation

Posted by joseph on Jan, 28 2013

Following a request from UN OCHA and SNAP, HOT is activating a remote mapping project in Syria to support humanitarian groups working within the current crisis. This post is intended to introduce the project and to appeal for help from volunteers. HOT has limited experience in working within the Arabic speaking world and we are hopeful that this activation will allow us to broaden our skills base in this area.

Return on writing the manual on OpenStreetMap kreyol ayitien

Posted by anne on Jan, 23 2013

In early December 2012 was announced the begining of a booksprint aimed at translating the manual OpenStreetMap into Haitian kreyol. This translation would allow a larger portion of the Haitian population to appropriate the collaborative mapping software that started being used a lot after the earthquake of January 2010. A Kreyol version of the manual could contribute in updating the most detailed map of countries. [inline:Capture du 2012-12-23 01:01:33.png] Here is a small return on the progress of the sprint.