Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team Email Format
Non-profit OrganizationsDistrict of Columbia, United States201-500 Employees
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) is a non-profit organization based in Washington, DC, founded in 2010 to advance OpenStreetMap and to support volunteers and local groups around the world in humanitarian mapping. By coordinating crisis-response mapping, HOT acts as a bridge between the OpenStreetMap community and traditional humanitarian responders such as MSF, the Red Cross, and UNOCHA, as well as local governments. It also funds field data collection, develops training materials, and trains mapping coordinators to organize volunteer mappers for emergency response. The organization sponsors and coordinates open-source software resources for the OpenStreetMap community and emphasizes open data sharing to support humanitarian response, economic development, and inclusive growth. In April 2025, the organization released a major new version of its platform for coordinating mapping tasks, signaling ongoing investment in collaborative, data-driven humanitarian mapping.