OpenStreetMap
I first got involved with Humanitarian Openstreetmap in February 2014 when Mount Kelud erupted in Indonesia and I saw the power of concentrated crowd sourcing in action. It was impressive. I also realised that it was the ideal way to contribute to Humanitarian disasters and crisis because the time and effort put into mapping would go directly to the people who needed it the most, and it would be immediately available to them. It was here that I realised this would probably be the way that Openstreetmap would reach the idea of a basic map of the world. With concentrated efforts like this. When Missing Maps started up their Mapathons in London in late 2014 I travelled in to London to meet with like minded people who wanted to fill in the blank spaces. Because of my mapping background I was elevated to helper and then tutor quite quickly and I was achieving far more mapping by helping others to get started than I would achieve on my own. I became an active member of the HOT Training Working Group. I was also able to help the London Mapathon evolve into it’s present format of three sections …. iD, JOSM and Validators … and have been involved in 36 Mapathons to date helping the London team introduced Humanitarian mapping at many corporate and educational venues. My record of involvement ( http://tasks.hotosm.org/user/RAytoun and http://hdyc.neis-one.org/?RAytoun ) shows that in a little less than four years I have created over 11,400 changesets and worked on 180 Tasking Manager projects which include HOT activations such as Mount Kelud, West Africa Ebola Outbreak, Malawi Floods, Typhoon Ruby, Cyclone Pam, Nepal Earthquake and Hurrican Matthew to name a few.
