Projects

Choose from remote mapping and validation tasks below.

Mapping Tasks

Disaster & Climate Change Resilience in Pakistan

Mapping buildings in Southern Punjab, Pakistan

The emerging OSM Pakistan Community targets to map Southern Punjab in the following months. Multan is a city oon the Chenab River home to 1.872 million people. It is identifed to have high risk of flooding and earthquake liquefaction. Mapping the buildings in these cities will be able to prepare geospatial data for disaster and climate change resiliency planning.

Amazon Flood Risk in Brasil

Mapping buildings in prone areas potentially susceptible to flood in Tucuruí municipality, Brasil

The municipality of Tucuruí is located in the southeastern mesoregion of the state of Pará and has an estimated population in 2021 of 116,605 inhabitants. The majority of this population lives in the urban center of the municipality located on the banks of the Tocantins River, downstream from the Tucuruí Hydroelectric Power Plant. Part of this riverbank is susceptible to flooding processes. The contribution of this mapping aims to identify exposed areas and assist in a quick response by Civil Defense and other humanitarian aid. This project will be developed by the YouthMappers Geodesastres Chapter coordinated by the Federal Rural University of Amazônia.

#MapAppalachia

Closing the gap for an underrepresented region of the United States

Large swaths of Appalachia are significantly underrepresented in OpenStreetMap. Highway corridors provide a prime springboard: they offer relatively higher population densities in an area that can be remote, and they provide a logical segue to lower-order roads for future mapping. The National Road (approximated locally by US40-Alt) is the historically significant corridor in Western Maryland, and is a logical starting point to begin filling in the map in this stretch of Appalachia. The National Road (approximated locally by US40-Alt) is the historically significant corridor in Western Maryland, and is a logical starting point to begin filling in the map in this stretch of Appalachia. This project addresses gaps from initial mapping projects over the last year with students from Frostburg State University and PennWest-California. Mappers are tasked with adding unmapped buildings along and in close proximity to the historic National Road.

The Walkabout: Meta's Pedestrian Mapping Initiative

An effort to improve pedestrian related data in OpenStreetMap

The Open Maps Team at Meta is partnering with local citizens to improve map data for pedestrian infrastructure in cities in the United States. We are inviting governments, advocacy groups, universities, and startups who share a common goal of building a safer and more accessible community to join us to learn how to increase the accuracy and detail of pedestrian infrastructure data in OpenStreetMap (OSM). We support the OSM community and maintain a suite of mapping tools to capture data and automate the mapping process.

Validation Tasks

Flash Flood Response in Tanzania, Project #1

Validating mapped buildings in Morogoro Municipality, Tanzania

SMCoSE YouthMappers chapter which is based in Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) - Morogoro, Tanzania and through the Global Integrated Flood and Drought Management Competition for #Youth-led Projects, has been awarded a grant to implement the project entitled “Mapping Flood protection zones and evacuation routes to improve preparedness and response capabilities to flash floods in local communities”. The project is funded by Global Water Partnership and shall be implemented in Morogoro Municipal and Ifakara Town council in Tanzania.

Flash Flood Response in Tanzania, Project #2

Validating mapped buildings in Morogoro Municipality, Tanzania

SMCoSE YouthMappers chapter which is based in Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) - Morogoro, Tanzania and through the Global Integrated Flood and Drought Management Competition for #Youth-led Projects, has been awarded a grant to implement the project entitled “Mapping Flood protection zones and evacuation routes to improve preparedness and response capabilities to flash floods in local communities”. The project is funded by Global Water Partnership and shall be implemented in Morogoro Municipal and Ifakara Town council in Tanzania.

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