• FORMAT

    Free, self-paced, online and self-contained (no PDFs or slides!)

  • Duration

     ~7 hours

  • Tools

    QGIS, uMap, Disaster Ninja, Openrouteservice

  • AUDIENCE

    Communities, organizations and individuals interested in using OpenStreetMap more in their work

    Humanitarian Use of OSM Data

    Learn from a range of real-world examples of humanitarian use of OpenStreetMap data.

    What our learners say:

    I have a geospatial background, but I learned a lot of new things during this course – particularly around utilizing OpenStreetMap data in a humanitarian context.
    I highly recommend this free, informative and practical training to all fellow map enthusiasts. It’s a fantastic opportunity to gain the skills needed to leverage open map data for humanitarian purposes with hands on experience.

    Course curriculum

    What's included?

    6 Units

    Certification

    Real-world workflows

    Course developers

    Sam Colchester

    Marie Makuate

    Can Unen

    Tim DeWinter

    Improving our course


    If you notice any improvements that could be made to the course please feel free to make direct comments in this Google document or email sam.colchester@hotosm.org to provide feedback.