Context

The “Tasking Manager” software is the key application to manage collaborative, crowd-sourced and professional mapping initiatives for OpenStreetMap (OSM). It is the core tool of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) and widely used for geodata generation for disaster response and preparedness. Large humanitarian organizations, like the Red Cross and Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), rely heavily on the main HOT Tasking Manager instance. The software is also being used by local OSM communities and big private players, like Apple and Facebook, for their professional mapping teams.

Description

For one year, Felix Delattre was the project manager for the Tasking Manager, leading a development team of up to ten people and engaging with an Open Source community of volunteers, high-level tech companies and well-known humanitarian organizations to drive the software to the next level, involving a user-focused redesign and machine learning algorithms to improve mappers’ efficiency and experience. The platform relies on scalable cloud hosting to respond to heavy loads, for example when mapathons and disaster activations start. Among other duties, he was a mentor for Google’s Summer of Code 2019.

Redesigned Tasking Manager project view.

Presenting HOT and its global activities.