Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) is a valuable resource for an effective disaster management. This article presents five free tools to enhance humanitarian work using VGI. What is VGI and why it matters for disaster management Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) refers to user-generated geographic content contributed voluntarily by the public. It represents a form of crowdsourcing […]| HeiGIT
This blog post introduces a step-by-step tutorial for working with a global road surface dataset. Using open-source tools, the tutorial demonstrates how to identify infrastructure gaps by combining road surface data with population information. How much time does a humanitarian mission need to reach a remote village after a cyclone hits rural Madagascar? How fast […]| HeiGIT