Improving The Map Of Nepal

The availability of accurate maps is specially of import inwards times of emergency to aid disaster answer teams together with aid agencies to effectively cope the teams on the ground.

Humanitarian Open Street Map Team (HOT) is a non-profit organization which coordinates the creation together with distribution of gratis mapping resources to back upwards humanitarian relief. Since the devastating earthquake inwards Nepal HOT has been organizing the answer of the Open Street Community to ameliorate the OSM maps of Nepal.

Mapbox has created a map visualizing the improvements to OpenStreetMaps inwards Nepal next the 2015 earthquake. Nepal Freshness shows the OpenStreetMap roads together with features which bring been created or updated since the earthquake. The yellowish features are the newest updates to the map.

The answer of OpenStreetMap contributors has been genuinely amazing. Over 2,000 dissimilar volunteers bring been helping improving the map of Nepal, quadrupling the route coverage together with adding 30% to a greater extent than buildings to OpenStreetMap inwards Nepal.


Mapbox has too released a map which is designed to aid OSM mappers position areas of Nepal which are probable to bring suffered the virtually damage. The Nepal Damage Analysis map visualizes guess touching on levels for every edifice together with route inwards OpenStreetMap.

Building footprints on the map are colored past times the interpolated superlative footing acceleration at each location. The crimson buildings are the ones which are probable to bring experienced the strongest shocks. The areas amongst the reddest buildings are the places which bring experienced the virtually footing crusade together with are thus probable to bring suffered the virtually damage.