Humanitarian Openstreetmap Team United States

Regional open mapping hubs:hot's regional open mapping hubs support open mapping organizations, communities and contributors throughout the world, enabling them to use open data in a way that strengthens communities and improves lives. In 2022, hot opened an additional hub in latin america & the caribbean. Together with hot's existing hubs in west and northern africa, asia pacific and eastern & southern africa, this wider Team supported more than 80 communities across more than 50 countries working with thousands of local community members to tackle issues such as water points accessibility and quality in niger, sustainable forestry with indigenous communities in guatemala, solid waste management in somalia and emergency response planning in east timor.

Community & partnerships:hot's community & partnerships Team focuses on a growing a global network of advocates and partners who advance the creation and use of open geospatial data for impact. The Team engages with local communities & partners of all types in the Humanitarian, technology & social impact sectors to co-create and implement projects that ensure osm data is used to meet real-world problems. In 2022, the Team increased its work in connecting global partners with community needs, to collaboratively address challenges that local communities and organizations face.

Technology innovation & data: hot practices continuous innovation to provide the latest web and mobile phone-based, free and open source tools to make map data collection, analysis and use more accessible. In 2022, the technology innovation Team focused on its end-to-end user approach, including from drone imagery capture and processing, to field data collection through a new mobile-based mapping tool, and further integrating artificial intelligence into the mapping process to complement human mapping. Our data Team worked to strengthen the quality and reliability of open map data in hot tools, working with a variety of actors across the open mapping ecosystem.