This event is part of Love Data Week at Stanford, an annual festival highlighting topics, opportunities and services relevant to data in research. 

Join us in mapping a high-priority global health project, helping organizations like Doctors without Borders and the Red Cross deliver vital aid to at-risk communities around the world. In just 20 minutes, you'll join a movement of over 100K volunteers across the world using Humanitarian OpenStreetMap (HOTOSM).

In our Winter Mapathon, we’ll be using satellite imagery and simple online GIS tools to trace building outlines, creating detailed digital maps of unmapped areas. Last spring, we mapped 2084 buildings in Malawi and hope to break that record! This Winter, we’ll be mapping a high-priority global health project that helps organizations like Doctors Without Borders and the Red Cross deliver vital, life-saving aid. Through Missing Maps, these efforts are sustained in collaboration with local communities, ensuring long-term resilience in the regions we map.

REGISTER HERE: https://luma.com/iekdb0rh

• Open to all Stanford affiliates in person or over Zoom & dinner will be provided!

• Non-Stanford affiliates may join us over Zoom! 
  Zoom: https://stanford.zoom.us/j/91622371366?pwd=ytaMaENiIgaR6rnR7HScVgPwA2NpRr.1&from=addon

What is a Mapathon? Accurate maps are essential for humanitarian responses and global health—yet many communities remain unmapped. Missing Maps is a humanitarian initiative started in 2014 to address this critical gap by mapping crucial infrastructure in underrepresented areas, often through collaborative “Mapathon” events. The maps created help emergency responders reach communities during natural disasters, enable healthcare workers to organize vaccination campaigns, and support NGOs in developing resilient infrastructure. 

So, join us for an evening of impact on Monday February 9th from 6-8 pm in Branner Earth Sciences Library. No prior experience is necessary—mapping is easy to learn in just 20 minutes—so come ready to have fun while contributing to a global humanitarian effort. We can’t wait to see you there!

We will be taking photos at this event for publicity purposes. Your presence at this event constitutes consent to be photographed unless you express otherwise.