From P2P Foundation

= Using Open Street Map for Humanitarian Response & Economic Development.

URL = http://hot.openstreetmap.org/ blog

Definition

'The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team [H.O.T.] is a new initiative to apply the principles of open source and open data sharing towards humanitarian response and economic development." (http://hot.openstreetmap.org/)

Description

"Free, collaborative maps are uniquely valuable to humanitarian work, especially in places where base map data is often scarce, out of date, or rapidly changing. OpenStreetMap is a web project to create a free and open map of the entire world, built entirely by volunteers surveying with GPS, digitizing aerial imagery, and collecting and liberating existing public sources of geographic data.

Building on two years of informal collaborations, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team [H.O.T.] is a new initiative to apply the principles and activities of open source and open data sharing towards humanitarian response and economic development." (http://hot.openstreetmap.org/weblog/about/)

More Information

Video: Kate Chapman from the Humanitarian Open Street Map Team (HOT) discusses mapping an entire country into OpenStreetMap for disaster preparedness.

URL = http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=AMzFdrbiQRo