• FORMAT

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

  • Duration

     ~9 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 Course

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

    This free, online course includes training in relatively easy-to-use browser-based tools such as uMap. It progresses to an introduction of QGIS and intermediate use of QGIS for analysing OpenStreetMap data in a humanitarian context.

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    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.

    Includes tools and content from:

    Course curriculum

    What's included?

    6 Units

    Quick feedback quizzes

    Discussion spaces

    Automatic certification

    Real-world workflows

    Course developers

    Sam Colchester

    Marie Makuate

    Can Unen

    Tim DeWinter

    Course developed together with: 

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    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.