About HOT

• To learn more about the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), explore more of our wiki-pages (root: HOT) or our website hotosm.org. We are a global community of mostly volunteers, we are also a US Nonprofit able to contract with organizations (email info at hotosm.org to contact our staff), we are also a 501-c-3 charitable organization.

History of this Activation

Reactivity of the OSM Community

• 9th March 2019 the impending Cyclone was brought to the attention of the Disaster Activation Team. A size-up was conducted, but without a mapping request and with the Cyclone so far out and path therefore fluctuating, the decision was made to hold on activating while more research was completed.
• 13th March 2019 a request for mapping was received from the International Federation of the Red Cross, noting priority areas for mapping in relation to the existing flooding in Zambezia province, and impending Cyclone in Sofala province.
• 14th March 2019 an updated size-up was completed, outlining the request from the IFRC and the new information regarding flooding in Zambezia, as well as updated information about the Cyclone. The same day the first project centring around the flooded town of Mopeia in Zambezia province was created on Tasking Manager to be mapped by volunteers.
• 15th March 2019 the initial mapping the flooded town of Mopeia was completed in around 24 hours (validation still ongoing), and therefore a second project was launched in the larger town of Nicolada.

• 16th March 2019 validation of town of Mopeia completed, and support of MSF projects in Zimbabwe following the impact of Cyclone Idai there is activated with six projects.
• 19th March 2019 mapping and validation of town of Nicoadala complete.
• 20th March 2019 request from IFRC to map areas in and surrounding both Beira and Buzi. Two urgent priority projects created.
• 21st March 2019 request put in and approved in relation to volunteers for mainly validation on Cyclone Idai MSF and IFRC projects from GISCorps
• 22nd March 2019 new IFRC supported project in Zimbabwe around a dam overflow on the first villages downstream, map of village of Murambinda and its surroundings requested as a result.
• 23rd April 2019 received final area of interest from IFRC, last projects will be released as existing are completed. (NOTE: Also started monitoring Cyclone Kenneth expected to make landfall in Northern Mozambique later in the week).
• 10th June A bug in the system started deleting Projects on the Tasking Manager and we lost 6 projects - #5840, #5844, #5948, #5953, #5968, #5969. The developers stopped further loss and are working on fixing the bug and hope to restore the missing projects.
• 13th June Four more projects lost #5831, #5895, #5907, #5964.

Project Page

https://www.hotosm.org/projects/CycloneIdai

Coordination

• HOT Disaster Coordinators: David Luswata (Lead), Theo Andrae (Initial Lead), Russell Deffner (HOT Disaster Coordinator)
• MSF and IFRC Leads: Jorieke Vyncke, Heather Leason, Paul Knight

Support Team

• HOT Support Team: Ralph Aytoun, Tyler Radford, Rebecca Firth, David Garcia, Greg Rose, Bryan Sayer, Saikat Maiti

Effort made - #cycloneidai

• March 18th 00:00UTC: 156 Mappers have contributed 1909 Highways; 28,848 Buildings and 218,875 total changes to OpenStreetMap
• March 21st 00:00UTC: 849 Mappers; 13,013 Highways; 96,732 Buildings and 1,099,760 total changes
• March 23rd 11:45UTC: 1,126 Mappers; 19,530 Highways; 127,437 Buildings; 1,943 Waterways and 1,615,505 total changes
• March 26th 20:10UTC: 1,529 Mappers; 33,148 Highways; 168,910 Buildings; 3,360 Waterways and 2,486,828 total changes
• March 30th 11:45UTC: 2,063 Mappers; 41,440 Highways; 208,500 Buildings; 4,658 Waterways and 3,246,226 total changes
• April 4th 16:25UTC: 2,631 Mappers; 58,544 Highways; 260,455 Buildings; 6,664 Waterways and 4,424,702 total changes
• April 11th 10:30UTC: 2,957 Mappers; 75,962 Highways; 303,591 Buildings; 7,848 Waterways and 5,495,585 total changes

(Source: resultmaps)

• April 23rd 18:00 UTC: 3,617 Mappers; 42,865 Kilometers of Road; 403,815 Buildings; 587,553 total Features Added
• April 30th 00:00 UTC: 3,713 Mappers; 43,431 Kilometers of Road; 407,884 Buildings; 595,320 total Features Added
• May 8th 18:00 UTC: 3,810 Mappers; 46,923 Kilometers of Road; 418,925 Buildings; 622,943 total Features Added
• May 20th 23:00 UTC: 4,008 Mappers; 55,622 Kilometers of Road; 443,492 Buildings; 680,660 total Features Added
• May 24th 18:30 UTC: 4,046 Mappers; 63,086 Kilometers of Road; 473,060 Buildings; 734,070 total Features Added
• May 30th 22:30 UTC: 4,172 Mappers; 70,967 Kilometers of Road; 501,930 Buildings; 782,568 total Features Added

(Source after 4/11: missingmaps)

Mapping Activation in the News

Doctors without Borders: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/what-we-do/news-stories/story/mapping-needs-new-technologies-play-essential-role-cyclone-idai

International Federation of the Red Cross: https://media.ifrc.org/ifrc/2019/04/01/mapping-cyclone-idai/

Learn to Map

• Most of our volunteer needs are for remote OSM contributors, visit LearnOSM.org to get started.
• See WikiProject Mozambique for more information concerning mapping in Mozambique.

Host a Mapathon

http://www.missingmaps.org/host/

Validate

Experienced mappers of at least Intermediate level can apply to be validator on this activation, double checking mapping and helping new mappers grow their skills:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd1t-krZTjixUHHwxSZfP53vHLnfR4Bm5cO1Cz7HuYWpONTmQ/viewform

Information on validating can be found here

Spread the Word

Follow us on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram and share our messages to encourage more mappers! Use the HOT hashtag #mapthedifference

Mapping Projects - Cyclone Idai

• Please choose from highest priority first
• Experienced mappers are also asked to participate in validating completed tasks. Information on validating can be found here

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