The latest #SketchMapTool release now integrates with #OpenAerialMap, letting you add freshly captured drone or openly licensed imagery as a background layer using just an image ID. 🗺️

This empowers local actors and community mappers to combine aerial views with on-the-ground knowledge in a single, seamless workflow.

As a result, #ParticipatoryMapping becomes even more accessible and efficient, in #humanitarian contexts and beyond!

👉 https://heigit.org/?p=41381

#droneimagery #mapping

🗺️ Mapping with Communities goes online!
After successful workshops at AGILE and GIScience conferences, we're hosting our first online event this December with UrbanBigData Centre.
An inclusive gathering for mappers & community initiatives worldwide to share experiences 6 explore collaborations.

📅 Two sessions: 8 & 9 December
👥 Register as participant or presenter

ℹ️ Info & registration: https://heigit.org/events/mapping-with-communities-online-workshop/
📢 Submit your project: https://heigit.limequery.org/341954?lang=en

#ParticipatoryMapping #GIS

From community knowledge to building resilience: #DisasterRiskReductionDay

How can local knowledge help us better understand risks?

The Sketch Map Tool (SMT) bridges the gap between analogue and digital mapping, transforming local knowledge into georeferenced data. By combining paper-based sketches with #OpenStreetMap and satellite imagery, SMT makes it easy to create, use, and later digitize maps for deeper spatial analysis.

https://sketch-map-tool.heigit.org/
#ResiliencePays #ParticipatoryMapping

HeiGIT and Urban Big Data Centre are hosting a joint workshop on “𝗠𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀” at the 𝗚𝗜𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱: https://giscience2025.org/workshops.html
We are looking forward to your submissions on participatory mapping and your experiences engaging with communities!

📣We will also be giving a talk on “𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴”: https://giscience2025.org/abstracts.html

See you there!

#GIscience #GIScience2025 #ParticipatoryMapping

What a great workshop on “Digitalizing Paper-based Participatory Risk #Mapping” at #IDRiM2024 with

Colombian Red Cross, Universidad National de Colombia, and UBDC! We explored the #SketchMapTool in the hands-on mapping session. #DisasterResilience #ParticipatoryMapping

https://heigit.org/digitalizing-paper-based-participatory-risk-mapping-with-the-sketch-map-tool-idrim-2024-cartagena-colombia/

At the #IDRiM conference this week in Cartagena 🇨🇴, we will discuss how the digitalization of #ParticipatoryMapping can contribute to #DisasterManagement.

Join us and our partners for two talks and a hands-on mapping session on the #SketchMapTool!

👉http://idrim2024.com