Organised Editing/Activities/Myanmar Earthquake 2025
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Context of the Activation On March 28, 2025, a devastating shallow 7.7-magnitude earthquake with its epicenter near Mandalay struck central Myanmar, causing widespread destruction, especially along the geological fault line running in a north-south direction across the country. Large areas, including major cities such as Mandalay, Sagaing, and Naypyidaw, were severely affected. This disaster strikes amid an already dire situation for the people of Myanmar, who have been enduring the ongoing civil war since 2021. The full extent of the damage and loss of life is not yet clear, but it is feared that the casualty numbers could rise into the thousands. Furthermore, infrastructure has suffered massive damage, with many buildings and bridges collapsing and roads being severely impacted. In response to this tragedy, myOSM – Myanmar’s OpenStreetMap Community is launched a mapping initiative to support humanitarian efforts and is calling for your help. Our goal is to provide essential mapping data to local responders, helping them plan and coordinate both immediate emergency relief and long-term reconstruction efforts. To see the spatial extent of the projects in HOT's Tasking Manager, please visit this uMap. | ||||||||||||||
Myanmar Earthquake 2025
Contacts
- Coordination: Bernard Heng bernard.heng@hotosm.org
- Support:
Hashtag
All contributions through HOT's Tasking Manager are tracked with a unique change set comment tag: #help-mm-earthquake
ohsomeNow Stats page for tracking overall contributions
Timeline
- Start: 28 Mar 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.
Other relevant resources
General
- The United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) interactive web application
- Overture Maps export of Myanmar building footprints (includes OSM building footprints)
- Microsoft AI for Good: building damage visualizer
- Underlying data for Microsoft's building damage
- Myanmar areas of control map at time of earthquake (svg)
- Direct Relief ML-Derived Building Damage and Health Facilities in Mandalay (uses OSM heath facilities)
- Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) cropland impact assessment story map
- GeoMSF Platform, some maps available for Myanmar, including Reference Maps
Imagery
- Post-quake images released by Maxar (here, here and on GitHub for programatic download)
- GDACS Satellite Mapping Coordination System (SMCS)
- THEOS-2 post-quake satellite imagery of Mandalay from GISTDA Thailand (suggest translating to English using browser)
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
- 28 Mar 2025: Size-up completed
- 28 Mar 2025: First MapSwipe project launched
- 28 Mar 2025: Post-quake images released by Maxar (here, here and on GitHub for programatic download)
- 29 Mar 2025: First Tasking Manager project created by MyOSM
- 30 Mar 2025: Data ethics and protection assessment completed by HOT
- 31 Mar 2025: First MapSwipe project completed and results generated here
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 Myanmar Earthquake project. This is a very easy way to contribute, but please follow the tutorial if you have not used MapSwipe before. First MapSwipe project completed and results generated here
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.