Search results for: “humanitarian”
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Analysis of Humanitarian OSM Stats: User activity through HOT-TM and contributing organizations
Introduction In this blogpost we are taking a look at humanitarian mapping through the Tasking Manager (HOT-TM) that is operated by the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). At HeiGIT we work together with HOT to provide analyses and statistics to further understand mapping activity. Explore the user and mapping stats of all Tasking Manager activites here. Check our blog posts about topics…
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HeiGIT at the 11th Global Dialogue Platform on Anticipatory Humanitarian Action
In October 2023, the 11th Global Dialogue Platform on Anticipatory Humanitarian Action will take place as a hybrid event in Berlin, allowing for people to attend either in person or online (register here). Under this year’s main theme “People at the centre: scaling up anticipatory action”, the platform offers a plethora of workshops and discussion…
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Join The Team: Student Assistant (m/f/d) for QGIS Training Platform for Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Response
Dear Students, we at HeiGIT are currently looking for a student assistant for our QGIS Training Platform for Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Response. Your Tasks will mostly be to create and manage training materials for QGIS Trainings for Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies based on existing materials, video editing of short clips for the…
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Online seminar ‘Deep learning from Volunteered Geographical Information: a case study of humanitarian mapping with OpenStreetMap’
We invite to the upcoming online seminar at the Urban Analytics Lab seminar series at the National University of Singapore (NUS): ‘Deep learning from Volunteered Geographical Information: a case study of humanitarian mapping with OpenStreetMap’ on 29 April (9am German time, 3pm Singapore time) By Hao Li, GIScience Research Group, Heidelberg University @GIScienceHD As an emerging topic,…
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HeiGIT and MapAction at FOSS4G 2021: Using the ohsome quality analyst to support humanitarian mapping
Last week, the annual conference FOSS4G (Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial) has been taken place online. The conference is organized by The Open Source Geospatial Foundation (OSGeo) and attracts over 1000 developers, users, decision-makers and observers from a broad spectrum of organizations and fields of operation each year. HeiGIT and MapAction contributed a…
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Humanitarian OSM Stats: How to monitor humanitarian mapping in the HOT Tasking Manager? – Part 5: the American Red Cross
Since 2010 organized humanitarian mapping has evolved as a constant and growing element of the global OpenStreetMap (OSM) community. With more than 8,000 projects in 150 countries humanitarian mapping has become a global community effort. Due to this large amount of projects, it can be difficult to get an overview on mapping activity. This is…
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Humanitarian OSM Stats: How to monitor humanitarian mapping in the HOT Tasking Manager? – Part 4
Since 2010, organized humanitarian mapping has evolved as a constant and growing element of the global OpenStreetMap (OSM) community. With more than 7,000 projects in 150 countries, humanitarian mapping has become a global community effort. Due to this large amount of projects, it can be difficult to get an overview on mapping activity. This is…
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Humanitarian OSM Stats: How to monitor humanitarian mapping in the HOT Tasking Manager? – Part 3
Since 2010 organized humanitarian mapping has evolved as a constant and growing element of the global OpenStreetMap (OSM) community. With more than 7,000 projects in 150 countries humanitarian mapping has become a global community effort. Due to this large amount of projects, it can be difficult to get an overview on mapping activity. This is…
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The evolution of humanitarian mapping within the OpenStreetMap community
In the past 10 years, the collaborative maps of OpenStreetMap (OSM) have been used to support humanitarian efforts around the world as well as to fill important data gaps for implementing major development frameworks such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In a recently accepted paper we provide a comprehensive assessment of the evolution of…
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Humanitarian OSM Stats: How to monitor humanitarian mapping in the HOT Tasking Manager? – Part 2
Since 2010 organized humanitarian mapping has evolved as a constant and growing element of the global OpenStreetMap (OSM) community. With more than 7,000 projects in 150 countries humanitarian mapping has become a global community effort. Due to this large amount of projects it can be difficult to get an overview on mapping activity. This is…
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Humanitarian OSM Stats: How to monitor humanitarian mapping in the HOT Tasking Manager? – Part 1
Since 2010 organized humanitarian mapping has evolved as a constant and growing element of the global OpenStreetMap (OSM) community. With more than 7,000 projects in 150 countries humanitarian mapping has become a global community effort. Due to this large amount of projects it can be difficult to get an overview on mapping activity. This is…
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Keynote at McGILL GIS DAY: Analysing and Improving OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Aid with Data Mining and GeoAI
Prof. Alexander Zipf has been invited to give the keynote at GIS DAY 2021 at McGILL University (Montréal, Canada) on Tuesday 19. Jan. 2021. The theme of the whole GIS Day at McGill is Humanitarian Mapping and the talk will talk about: “Analysing and Improving OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Aid with Data Mining and GeoAI” Agenda:…