Resumen de Mapping in a crisis
Hodson finds how an online army helped health workers responding to an Ebola outbreak in Guinea that had no maps. When doctors working for Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) arrived in the West African nation of Guinea last month to combat an outbreak of the deadly Ebola hemorrhagic fever, they found themselves working in an information vacuum. Accurate maps are crucial to pinpointing the source of the Ebola virus and preventing it from spreading. But the only maps in Guinea were topographic charts--useless for understanding population distribution. Desperate for information, they enlisted an online army to help. MSF asked a digital mapping organization called Humanitarian OpenstreetMap Team to build them a map of Gueckedou, a city of around 250,000 people in southern Guinea, where the outbreak is concentrated.
