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Want to help map the world? Community builder Rebecca Firth explains how the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) is using open-source software powered by volunteers to put one billion people on the map in the next five years. (This ambitious plan is a part of the Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.)
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Exactly
How to join the group?
Yes how to join group?
https://www.hotosm.org/volunteer-opportunities/
I will be more than happy to be able to help
Its a mostly World map.
I’m so confused why so few people know OpenStreetMap
@Nazli Aydin what so that you can put it into the Snopes “fact checker”? Lmao
@Nazli Aydin you don’t need the links, you just need to watch the TED talks/interviews. It is all hiding in plain sight. The Anderson-Gates one is very informative.
@Nazli Aydin let me guess, are you part of the Aadhaar Project in India?
Thats an amazing project and I’m a little bit dissappointed ( in myself) that I’ve never heard of it before.
Cartographers for Social Equality strike again!
Gimme 200 bucks and it’s done!
Ever stop to think some people dont want to be on a map … I for 1 do not . i worked extra hard to find a place off the map and here you go ruining that ….
Just log in and edit your area out of the map! 🙂
Can I ask why?
@Bananarama indeed there is a growing authoritarian regime worldwide bent on the enslavement of mankind . i for 1 do not wish to participate in the “NEW AGE” that is upon us
@HINDSIGHT 2020 Whilst using Google? Yea gtfo here lmao
@Firre Torr i still have time to use the tools at my disposal to not do so would be foolish . dont worry you can have my portion of whats to come .
Im cool that they do it, but this feels just like advertising..
Of course it is. They want help with their charity project. How else do you suppose they would get the word out and attract volunteers?
Easily
Unfortunately in this world of marketing, no company is truly focused on humanity.
World map? More like demographics.
oh wow i’ve never heard of this before! i would love to help
LoL -more 1st world PC garbage
“Community builder” isn’t a thing.
For anyone who didn’t understand adding people on maps, doesn’t mean adding that this is steve’s house and that one is Harry’s they are speaking about places in Africa where if you open google maps or bing or others, you won’t see buildings and roads, you will see a blank white page.
Mapping people means adding buildings/roads/schools etc, so that Aid organization are able these populations.
So yes, a person like you living in a first world country, would open google maps to navigate to anywhere in your country, others aren’t even recognized on it, and HOT aims to help them.
Links To Help:
Link to HOT: https://www.hotosm.org/ (if you want to help with mapping)
Link to the Openstreetmap: https://www.openstreetmap.org (if you want to check out the map they’re building)
FOSS is always the way to go, I support it!
Some places are dangerous too!
awesome!