To the ends of the Earth

• Autores: Hal Hodson
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2924, 2013, pág. 20
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The slums of Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, the factory district of Chittagong, Bangladesh, villages in the Haitian hills--pull up these places on Google Maps and people will find little more than grey blobs with a sparse criss-cross of roads. Yet maps are a vital resource, especially when deciding what infrastructure to build or in the event of a humanitarian crisis. Now teams of mappers are working to chart some of the most obscure corners of the developing world using OpenStreetMaps, the citizen-mapping tool that today has over one million registered users. By sending out volunteers across the globe, the Humanitarian OSM Team aims to create collaborative maps that can be used by aid and development agencies.