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A beginner’s guide to mapping out natural disasters

Log in, pick a task, trace features on a blank map. This Azavea staffer wants to rally more hands around the Callowhill firm's #HOTLunch initiative.

At HOT Lunch, where Azavea workers got together to pitch in a global Puerto Rico relief effort. (Courtesy photo)

Azavea Community Ambassador Dan Ford dreams of making #HOTLunch a regular, worldwide thing.

The event, a lunch-hour session for crowd-editing maps of natural disaster sites like Puerto Rico, was born out of a similar Philly Tech Week 2017 event in May. To get more folks around the world to join the effort, Ford wrote a beginner’s guide to help entry-level technologists start mapping.

“Anyone with a passion for volunteering, philanthropy, or helping others can participate,” Ford writes.

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The FAQ breaks down the process of logging in to the Humanitarian Open StreetMap Team platform, selecting a project and using a series of tools to provide updated information to NGOs and relief workers on the ground.

Ford is in talks with a few Philly tech companies to get them to join the #HOTLunch push, happening the last Wednesday of every month at 12 p.m. Eastern time.

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