Compare Dates - New Shelters - Gaza (2) HOT
Compare Dates
Active
Gaza
HOT
Sep 1, 2026
Project overview
**This is a difficult project, so please use the tutorial before you start!**
Over 90% of the approximately 2 million people in Gaza are living in displacement due to the conflict with Israel. Most are unable to return to their homes due to extensive damage and an unstable ceasefire. Despite the challenges, more than 800,000 Gazans returned to northern Gaza from the south following the peace agreement in October 2025. Understanding the locations of new tents is critical to locate where people are in need of humanitarian aid. As most of the area is still hard to access, earth observation is needed to help identify the population movements within Gaza over the last 6-8 months.
*The imagery in this project is custom imagery from November 2025 (before) and April 2026 (after) © Airbus DS (2025 & 2026), provided by the Airbus Foundation for the purpose of this project. Please do not download, store, copy, transfer or reverse engineer the image in any way.*
58
km2
12
Contributors
Project Completion
23% completed
Last updated: Sep 3, 2026
Download the data
Below you'll find the data downloads for this MapSwipe project, including a GeoJSON file that can be imported into the HOT Tasking Manager for more detailed mapping of the area. If you need more information or if you have a special request related to MapSwipe data get in contact with the team at the Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology
Aggregated Results
Aggregated Results. This gives you the unfiltered MapSwipe results aggregated on the task level. This is most suited if you want to apply some custom data processing with the MapSwipe data, e.g. select only specific tasks. Check our documentation for more details. (Note that you need to unzip this .gz file before you can use it.)
GZIP
0.3 MB
Aggregated Results (with Geometry)
Aggregated Results. This gives you the unfiltered MapSwipe results aggregated on the task level. This is most suited if you want to apply some custom data processing with the MapSwipe data, e.g. select only specific tasks. Check our documentation for more details. (Note that you need to unzip this .gz file before you can use it.)
GZIP
0.3 MB
Groups
Groups. (Note that you need to unzip this .gz file before you can use it.)
GZIP
6.7 kB
History
History
CSV
0.5 kB
Results
This gives you the unfiltered MapSwipe results. (Note that you need to unzip this .gz file before you can use it.)
GZIP
93.5 kB
Tasks
Tasks. (Note that you need to unzip this .gz file before you can use it.)
GZIP
0.4 MB
Users
This dataset contains information on the individual contributions per user. This tells you for instance the most active users of this project. (Note that you need to unzip this .gz file before you can use it.)
GZIP
0.6 kB
Area of Interest
This dataset contains information on the project region.
GEOJSON
76.4 kB
HOT Tasking Manager Geometries
This dataset contains shapes that are ready to use in the HOT Tasking Manager. Currently, the geometries consist of maximum 15 MapSwipe Tasks, where at least 35% of all users indicated the presence of a building by classifying as "yes" or "maybe"
GEOJSON
59.2 kB
Moderate to High Agreement Yes Maybe Geometries
This dataset contains all results where at least 35% of users submitted a "yes" or "maybe" classification. The output dataset depicts the union of all selected results.
GEOJSON
0.1 MB
Our license
This project is part of the OpenStreetMap community. The goal is high-quality geographical data, freely accessible and available to everyone. OSM’s reciprocal license protects the data from being appropriated by services that do not share back to OSM.
MapSwipe is released under a "liberal" non-reciprocal license (Creative Commons Attribution). Whenever you want to use the data, just make sure to credit the MapSwipe contributors.
