What would you do in the middle of the jungle in Papua New Guinea if you needed medical care? Volunteers have identified airstrips Médecins Sans Frontières can use to get to hard-to-reach communities.

This article summarizes the key highlights of Mapswipe Belgium meetup 2024.

The real story of MapSwipe is the volunteers who give their time to improve humanitarian mapping, the agencies that use the data to save and improve lives, and the incredible developers who continue to build and maintain MapSwipe and make it a key tool in the open mapping ecosystem. However, we hope people sometimes remember how we originally built MapSwipe.

The American Red Cross is excited to announce the launch of new functionality in the MapSwipe app. We supported an enhancement to make MapSwipe more accessible and easy to use for a wider community of users.

Using the MapSwipe data, the Nigerian Red Cross are now able to see the accuracy of the previous mapping and any edits that need to be made to the community map as it is today.

To bolster and expand the impact of MapSwipe, the American Red Cross has supported upgrades to the app.

We are excited that the American Red Cross has supported the development and launch of new functionalities for contribution analytics including the concept of groups which allow users to aggregate tallies of their efforts.

To respond to the cyclone emergency in Madagascar, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) used a new MapSwipe method developed by the Heidelberg Institute of Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) and Laurent Savaete, a long-time MapSwipe software engineer.

To support economic livelihoods and resilience, the World Bank partnered with MapSwipe to identify solid waste in Bamako, Mali.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) unveils a first-of-its-kind mobile phone app in which people across the globe can locate communities in remote parts of the world affected by natural disasters, disease outbreaks or conflict.