HOT Annual Report 2019

Mapping Our World Together

what we do


HOT is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping.

In 2019 alone:

  • 51,606 people contributed to the map

  • 2,400 projects and 2 million tasks mapped

  • Mapped 367,404 km of road

  • Mapped 12.5 million buildings

View Our Work Around the Globe

In 2019 the world faced many new and ever more challenging disasters and crises. The effects of climate-related disasters were yet again front and center. Cyclone Idai, one of the strongest cyclones to ever hit Africa, was followed by Cyclone Kenneth and affected more than two million people across Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi...

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our impact in 2019

2019 was one of HOT's biggest years yet - our community grew to larger than ever before, and we achieved great things together. Here are some of our highlights from the last year.


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Disaster Response and Preparedness



Reducing Gender Inequality



Key Disaster Activations in 2019

Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe

Technology brings our global community together, enables accessible and open data, and ensures that data is used.

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View our financials to view your contributions at work and growth in public support.

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