1. Contributing to Disaster Relief Efforts from Home: An Introduction to the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Thomas Pingel
Department of Geography
Huskie Hack
Northern Illinois University
November 5-6, 2016

2. “When major disaster strikes anywhere in the world, HOT rallies a huge network of volunteers to create, online, the maps that enable responders to reach those in need.”

3. OpenStreetMap is a directly editable map and repository for public and crowdsourced geodata. Much of this data finds its way into Google Maps, but it remains free to the public.

4. https://hotosm.org/projects

7. Building disaster preparedness in Indonesia
Base data serves many needs in humanitarian response. Often responding organizations are scrambling to gather data because it is not readily available.
The focus of HOT’s work in Indonesia has been data preparedness and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR).
In order to minimize the growing rate of exposure and rising vulnerability, governments need to first identify where and who is exposed to disaster risks.
HOT focuses on teaching how to collect and map this data.

10. How do I get started? Create an account at OpenStreetMap.org
Follow the tutorials at LearnOSM.org
Contact me to be a part of the NIU team!
We’d like to activate the team and work on projects together
A good introductory video at