At HOT, we are working on a group of free and open source tools for community creation of maps. Following a process that involves aerial imagery gathering with UAVs, remote volunteer mapping, community in-the-field data collection, AI assisted remote sensing, and finally, downloading and using the map in disasters and humanitarian work. This is an E2E solution that benefits everyone, from a small community to a big organization. We want to tell the story about how we’re creating and using these tools and what could be the future of humanitarian and disaster mapping from an open tech and data perspective.

In this workshop, we propose to show how these different steps works together, using all free and open source software:

1. Open Drone Tasking Manager + OpenDroneMap + OpenAerialMap for capturing, processing and publishing aerial imagery
2. Tasking Manager for remote organized mapping
3. fAIr for creating our own models for AI-assisted mapping
4. Field Mapping Tasking Manager for collecting data in the field
5. Export Tool for export and download data from OSM

On each of these steps we'll show the tools, how they work together and what's the future for each one's development.

Then we'll ask people to use them. In some cases we'll have data already prepared, for example we want to flight drones before the workshop for having aerial imagery, and to create models for AI-assisted mapping with those images. Then, we can focus on remote and field mapping. After the workshop, we'll invite people to make use of the data that was generated, trough downloads from OpenStreetMap and also trough mobile apps like Organic Maps and OsmAnd.

This will be an amazing opportunity for generating lots of high quality data but also for testing new free and open source software and getting feedback for improving it.