Map-a-thon with the Humanitarian Mapping Society
October 2015 – April 2018
Over the course of three years, the Spatializing Poverty Project collaborated with the Humanitarian Mapping Society (HMS) at the George Washington University to use open-source geospatial tools for data collection and analysis. HMS is a student-led organization that trains and teaches fellow students, professionals, and other members how to use these kinds of tools. As part of this partnership, HMS participants input the basemap data that was collected in the field into the OpenStreetMap (OSM), a free and editable map of the world which was the primary source of map data for this Project (see Step 2 of the Participatory Mapping page).
During the partnership, HMS students also held “map-a-thons” to develop the basic building and road data on OSM, and assisted with training attendees for the Poverty Mapping Teacher Training Workshop (see the first tab on this page for more information). Currently, HMS and the Project are concluding a university partnership with Radiant Solutions’ crowdsourced platform, GeoHIVE. Through this partnership, students learn to use high-resolution satellite imagery to find footbridge data in Tinghir Province and Casablanca, Morocco.
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