Crowdsourced Open Mapping for DRR

Many of the world's most vulnerable places do not exist in detail on any map.

Founded in 2015, Missing Maps is a partnership that aims to map these places before the next crisis or disaster. Utilizing the free and openly available OpenStreetMap platform, Missing Maps has put an area home to more than 20 million people on the global map for the first time since the project's founding.

This booth will feature real maps developed for on-the-ground disaster risk reduction projects across Asia (Indonesia) and Africa (including Tanzania and other countries).

Visitors to the booth will gain immediate hands-on experience in using OpenStreetMap on their mobile phones and laptops and learn about setting up participatory mapping projects in their countries.

The booth will host an ongoing "mapathon" where participants will be asked to help map for a real-world project in need of data.