Join the Open Mapping Hub - Eastern and Southern Africa (OMHESA) and the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), in a mapping campaign to create datasets in OpenStreetMap to be used to better prepare for the destruction that El Niño may cause.
Our mapping efforts will focus on two aspects; vulnerability of assets (buildings, roads, infrastructures, farms, etc.), and enhanced preparedness and emergency response to flooding events in the region. Data created will be used by the FAO teams in the development of an early warning system which will be used to send messages to communities at risk of flooding events. Mapped data will further be used by other humanitarian responders to save lives during response activities of the forthcoming flooding events in the region.
Contributions to this campaign are welcome from anyone around the globe. Please register below to enable us connect with you so we can walk this journey together.
The campaign will run from August 15th to October 15th, 2023. Mappers who take part from start until the end of the campaign will receive a certificate, and top 30 mappers will receive a mappy SWAG pack!