A high-level overview of the activities of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team. Delivered by Schuyler Erle and Mikel Maron at the State of the Map US in San Francisco on 9 June 2013.

1. Helping People
in Need with
OSM:
The Humanitarian
OpenStreetMap Team
State of the Map US
9 June 2013

2. The Humanitarian
OpenStreetMap Team
... is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting
humanitarian work with open data and software.

3. OSM and Humanitarian Efforts
Crisis response
Humanitarian risk reduction
Technical capacity building
... all using OpenStreetMap!

4. Principles
Develop, utilize, and rely on open data
Provide services to humanitarian responders
Respect local knowledge and culture
Work quickly and efficiently
Be open to collaboration and partnerships

5. Activities
Field projects
Remote mapping
Software development
Community organizing

6. Field Projects
Completed and ongoing
AusAID (Indonesia)
USAID (Haiti)
Eurosha (Kenya, Chad, CAR, Burundi)
Early phase
Organization internationale de la Francophonie
(Senegal, Burkina Faso, Togo, Chad)
OpenCities (Sri Lanka, Bangladesh)

7. Other Partnerships
American Red Cross training
Peace Corps volunteer involvement with OSM
Imagery to the Crowd (State Dept. HIU)
Mapmill (FEMA & Civil Air Patrol)

8. Recent Crisis Response
Activations
Mali (conflict)
Syria (conflict)
Central African Republic (conflict)
Congo (disease outbreak)
Afghanistan

12. Technical projects
Tasking manager
HOT export tool
Export tag chooser
Custom JOSM map styling
Mapmill

16. Working groups
Activation
Technical
Security
Strategic
Membership

17. Challenges
Projects and activations
Response vs. preparedness vs. development
Organizational funding and capacity

18. Conclusion
HOT is a thing
HOT works
HOT needs your help

19. Thank you!
and especially thank you to all the HOTties out there!
lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
hotosm.org