Earthquake response and recovery aided by HOT mapping
An earthquake of magnitude 7.8 hit Ecuador on April 16, and the open mapping community responded. The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, or HOT, coordinated a global effort of volunteers to rapidly digitize satellite imagery to provide much needed maps and data to support humanitarian organizations deployed to the disaster. A number of chapters of YouthMappers held remote mapping events to create OpenStreetMap data for relief efforts in Ecuador, including Clemson University, M