Find-Building in Hodh Chargui (4)

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Active
Mauritania
HOT
Aug 7, 2025
Find-Building in Hodh Chargui (4)

Project overview

In the HeC region, home to over 471,000 people including 154,000 out-of-camp refugees, many households remain invisible due to extreme population dispersion (3.33 persons/km²). Using MapSwipe, we crowdsource the identification of buildings from satellite imagery, helping to locate isolated homes and villages. This early step enables faster, more targeted mapping, critical for humanitarian response in areas often overlooked due to limited existing data. The region faces growing humanitarian needs: 85% of refugee households are classified as vulnerable, while most lack shelter, sanitation, and access to food and water. Host communities also face severe shortages. MapSwipe helps us detect clusters of population and infrastructure in hard-to-reach areas, supporting equitable planning and ensuring services reach the people who need them most. This work also supports long-term planning. As climate shocks increase and new pressures, such as planned economic zones and refugee camp transformations, emerge, knowing where people live and what they can access is essential. MapSwipe helps lay the foundation for data-informed investments in resilience, infrastructure, and sustainable development

4767
km2
477
Contributors
Project Completion
100% completed
020406080100Sep 15, 25Sep 16, 25Sep 18, 25Sep 19, 25Sep 21, 25Sep 23, 25
Last updated: Sep 23, 2025, 11:51:42 PM

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.)
csv
6.6 MB
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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.)
geojson
6.9 MB
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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
20.7 kB
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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
27.9 kB
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Groups
Groups. (Note that you need to unzip this .gz file before you can use it.)
csv
8.9 kB
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History
History
geojson
1.1 kB
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Results
This gives you the unfiltered MapSwipe results. (Note that you need to unzip this .gz file before you can use it.)
csv
3.7 MB
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Tasks
Tasks. (Note that you need to unzip this .gz file before you can use it.)
csv
6 MB
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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.)
csv
21.2 kB
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Area of Interest
This dataset contains information on the project region.
geojson
0.5 kB
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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.