[HLUG] Crisis Mapping on Radio 4

[Julian Robbins]

Funny they don't mention OpenStreetMap by name a where I  the text..

Still sounds an interesting listen

Julian
On 27 Jan 2014 11:10, "George DiceGeorge" <dicegeorge at hotmail.com> wrote:

> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03s6mf0
>
> Dr Kat Arney meets the people trying to change the world one map at a
> time. These are volunteers who use their free time to map the world's
> unmapped places and people.
>
> She sees how being on a map affects people's work, education and rights.
> And in extreme weather or after a natural disaster, she hears how mappers
> might help us to find the people who have fallen off the maps. She also
> hears from crisis mappers, people who source any information they can after
> tragedies to document what is happening on the ground as fast as possible.
>
> This story starts in January 2010, when a huge earthquake hit the island
> nation of Haiti. Thousands of miles away, a group of American students
> heard about the damage, logged onto their laptops and started mapping any
> post-disaster information they could find online. Their aim was to help the
> rescue and relief services save as many lives as possible.
>
> Four years on, international contingents of cartographers now deploy after
> every natural disaster, and in areas of political unrest and civil war.
> They scour the internet for cries for help on social media, then mark them
> on maps to try to get help to people who need it most.
>
> There's also a project making a continual effort to make the most accurate
> physical map of the globe. Contributing could mean joining a mapping party
> in London. Or cycling around rural Uganda with a GPS device.
>
> Thousands of volunteers are now spending their spare time contributing to
> these efforts. Some of those who started it all have become internationally
> recognised in a new area of expertise. As volunteers assemble around the
> world, Dr Kat Arney asks how powerful these maps can be and also assesses
> the problems that come with them.
>
> Produced by Clare Salisbury and Jolyon Jenkins
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01qck84
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Damaged_buildings_crisis_mapping
>
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