Organised Editing/Activities/Cyclone Jude-25
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Context of the Activation Tropical Cyclone Jude made landfall in Mossuril district, Nampula province Mozambique on 10 March 2025 with maximum sustained winds of 140 km/h and gustiness of up to 195 km/h. Humanitarian response capacities are overstretched due to simultaneous ongoing responses to two previous cyclones (Chido in December 2024 and Dikeledi in January 2025) other shocks including cholera, food insecurity, conflict, and political tensions, and mobilization of resources will be a challenge amid the overall decline in humanitarian funding. (Read more) | ||||||||||||||
Tropical Cyclone Jude-25
Contacts
- Coordination: Wilson Munyaradzi - Wilson.Munyaradzi@hotosm.org
- Support: Sam Colchester - sam.colchester@hotosm.org
Hashtag
All contributions through HOT's Tasking Manager are tracked with a unique change set comment tag: #jude-25
ohsomeNow Stats page for tracking overall contributions
Timeline
- Start: March 11, 2025
- End: TBC
Map and Data Services
Exporting OpenStreetMap data
- From a Tasking Manager project page, scroll down to the 'Download OSM Data' section once the project is 100% complete
About This Disaster Activation
About HOT
To learn more about the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), explore more of our wiki-pages (root: HOT) or our website hotosm.org. HOT is a global community, mostly of volunteers, and it is a US registered nonprofit able to contract with organizations (email info at hotosm.org to contact our staff), we are also a 501(c)(3) charitable organization.
History of this Activation
- 11 Mar 2025: Size-up completed by Wilson Munyaradzi
- 12 Mar 2025: First MapSwipe project launched to identify built up areas in Licungo Mozambique, wider area of interest shared by OSM Mozambique
- 12 Mar 2025: OSM US Tasking Manager project created by TomTom
- 19 Mar 2025: Second MapSwipe project launched to identify built up areas in Licungo
- 24 Mar 2025: First HOT Tasking Manager project published, using results from first MapSwipe project
- 26 Mar 2025: Third MapSwipe project launchedto to identify built up areas in Licungo
Data Quality
Validation
Validation permissions for Tasking Manager projects are to users with intermediate+ status (more than 250 changesets)
For Mappers
How You Can Contribute
MapSwipe
Go to https://web.mapswipe.org/#/en and look for a Jude project. This is a very easy way to contribute, but please follow the tutorial if you have not used MapSwipe before.
Learn to Map
- Most of our volunteer needs are for remote OSM contributors, visit LearnOSM.org to get started.
Mapping Priority
- Please choose from highest priority first.
- We call for local mappers to prioritize local knowledge on the area.
Tasking Manager
HOT Tasking Manager projects and their progress can be seen here. For any projects that are marked 'Published', select the link in the Project ID column and it will launch the project and you will be able to contribute.
Mapping Instructions
- For remote mapping via HOT's Tasking Manager, see here