Volunteers across the world are building the digital infrastructure for the organization’s Typhoon Haiyan relief efforts

Seth Dixon‘s insight:

Crowd-sourced mapping is increasingly an important resource during an emergency.  Poorer places are often not as well mapped out by the commercial cartographic organizations and these are oftentimes the places that are hardest hit by natural disasters.  Relief agencies depend on mapping platforms to handle the logistics of administering aid and assessing the extent of the damage.  Can you join in and help?

Tags: disasters, mapping,  Philippines.

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