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Building on two years of informal collaborations, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team [H.O.T.] is a new initiative to apply the principles and activities of open source and open data sharing towards humanitarian response and economic development." | Building on two years of informal collaborations, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team [H.O.T.] is a new initiative to apply the principles and activities of open source and open data sharing towards humanitarian response and economic development." | ||
(http://hot.openstreetmap.org/weblog/about/) | (http://hot.openstreetmap.org/weblog/about/) | ||
=More Information= | |||
Video: Kate Chapman from the Humanitarian Open Street Map Team (HOT) discusses mapping an entire country into OpenStreetMap for disaster preparedness. | |||
URL = http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AMzFdrbiQRo | |||
Latest revision as of 02:44, 14 April 2012
= Using Open Street Map for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development.
URL = http://hot.openstreetmap.org/ blog
Definition
'The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team [H.O.T.] is a new initiative to apply the principles of open source and open data sharing towards humanitarian response and economic development." (http://hot.openstreetmap.org/)
Description
"Free, collaborative maps are uniquely valuable to humanitarian work, especially in places where base map data is often scarce, out of date, or rapidly changing. OpenStreetMap is a web project to create a free and open map of the entire world, built entirely by volunteers surveying with GPS, digitizing aerial imagery, and collecting and liberating existing public sources of geographic data.
Building on two years of informal collaborations, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team [H.O.T.] is a new initiative to apply the principles and activities of open source and open data sharing towards humanitarian response and economic development." (http://hot.openstreetmap.org/weblog/about/)
More Information
Video: Kate Chapman from the Humanitarian Open Street Map Team (HOT) discusses mapping an entire country into OpenStreetMap for disaster preparedness.
URL = http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AMzFdrbiQRo