Brussels / 31 January & 1 February 2026

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From Drones to Data: Building an Open Mapping Ecosystem for All


At the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), we envision an ecosystem of open mapping technology that enables everyone, and in particular vulnerable communities, to make open map data available in order to use in disaster response and humanitarian context. We focus on building with our community and involving our users in every step of the process.

In this session, we would like to take you on a journey in introducing the full end-to-end open mapping workflow and the open source tools enabling that process - from the newly developed Drone Tasking Manager to fAIr (our AI assisted mapping service), Field Tasking Manager, ChatMap and uMap. We will share some stories from case studies in testing the end to end mapping workflow in Indonesia and Sierra Leone and the lessons learnt.

We hope that you will leave this talk inspired and with an understanding on how YOU can become part of the open mapping ecosystem and contribute to the technology development!

HOTOSM website: https://www.hotosm.org/tech-suite HOTOSM Github: https://github.com/hotosm

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Photo of Petya Kangalova Petya Kangalova

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