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STEP 1
Remote mapping
Remote volunteers trace satellite imagery into OpenStreetMap.
Remote volunteers trace satellite imagery into OpenStreetMap.
Community volunteers add local detail such as neighbordhoods, street names and evacuation centers.
Humanitarian organizations and local communities use the maps to plan risk reduction and disaster response.
Never mapped before? Don’t worry, it doesn’t take long to learn. The best way is at a mapathon, where volunteers get training and map together. Check the Events Calendar for upcoming Missing Maps events!
If you don’t see any events in your language or time, you can still start mapping anytime — visit our Get Involved page and choose a mapping tool. New events are added regularly!
Remote mapping and local knowledge came together in Kulob, Tajikistan, to fill critical gaps in neighbourhood-level map data for a tuberculosis project. Through remote sessions and hand-drawn maps, MSF teams in Kulob helped turn local knowledge into neighbourhood boundaries that had never been mapped before. The result is a map that supports tuberculosis screening and analysis and will continue to be useful for health teams working in the city.
The State of the Map Africa 2023 provided a space for a hybrid Missing Maps annual meeting on the edges of the conference in Yaoundé, as well as the first-ever Missing Maps annual report with highlights, successes and challenges.
The Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology team recently launched a new version of the Skecth Map Tool - an easy-to-use tool for participatory sketch mapping through offline data collection, digitization and georeferencing of local spatial knowledge.
