11. About
Using OpenStreetMap for Humanitarian Response
and Economic Development
Incorporated as US Nonprofit in August 2010
Became a registered 501(c)3 charitable organization in 2013
12. Current Remote Mapping
Year Action
2015 Activation, Eastern Afghanistan Earthquake, 26 October
2015 Activation, Hurricane Patricia, 23 October
2015 Humanitarian Mapping Project, Salgar Landslide
2015 Activation, 2015 Nepal earthquake
2014-2015 Activation, 2014_West_Africa_Ebola_Response 2014, March - ongoing
2014 Humanitarian Mapping Project, Tharparkar Drought in Pakistan - ongoing
2014 Humanitarian Mapping Project, 2014 Paraguay floods
2013 Humanitarian Mapping Project, Central Africa Republic (CAR) Crisis Response - ongoing
2013 Humanitarian Mapping Project, South Sudan Crisis Response - ongoing
13. Past Remote Mapping
Year Action
2015 2015 Vanuatu (Typhoon Pam Cyclone)
2014 Democratic Republic of Congo Ebola Response
... Southeast Europe Floods
... Typhoon Hagupit (Ruby)
... Typhoon Haiyan Response (Philippines)
2013 2013 Humanitarian Mapping Project for Uttarakhand, India
2012 2012-2013 Mali Crisis
... 2012 Activation for South and North-Kivu, DR Congo
... En:WikiProject Ivory Coast
... May - Refugee Camps in Ethiopia & Kenya (Camp Roberts)
... 2012 Flooding in Senegal
2011 2011 Samoa Cyclone Simulation
... Horn of Africa Famine
... 2011 Richelieu river flooding
... 2011 Rio de Janeiro Flooding
... 2011 Christchurch earthquake
... Libya crisis
... 2011 Sendai earthquake and tsunami
2010 2010-03 Cyclone Tomas over Wallis and Futuna
... 2010 Shkoder Flooding
... 2010 Colombia floods
... 2010 Storm Megi/Juan
... 2010 Chile earthquake
... 2010 Yushu earthquake
... 2010 Yushu earthquake
... 2010 Alagoas Flooding
... 2010 07 Pakistan Floods
... AlbanianFloodingCrisisCamp
... 2010-01 Haitian Earthquake
2009 Gaza
... Iran -- Post-Election Crisis
... 2009, September - Philippines - Ondoy
14. Activation
“as a declaration to other aid organisations that we have useful map data
or that we are "active" and actively pursuing creation of map data in
response to a crisis”
The first time though it really got big attention was after the earthquake in Haiti in 2010. On the left is a before picture of Port-au-Prince on the left is an after only a couple weeks later. The problem in Haiti was compounded by the fact that the National Mapping Agency office was destroyed from the earthquake and it wasn’t clear immediately where the backup of the data was.