• 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.
    This course was instrumental in helping me learn QGIS and other GIS tools. The skills I gained have enabled me to create multiple impactful geospatial projects, including a story map focused on telecoms access in rural Nigeria.

    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: 

    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.