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You are here: Home / Press / GPS / How the Red Cross and digital volunteers are mapping Typhoon Haiyan to save lives

How the Red Cross and digital volunteers are mapping Typhoon Haiyan to save lives

November 14, 2013 By LBSzone

From a room in Moorgate, London, a team of three is working alongside a handful of volunteers to map the destruction caused by Typhoon Haiyan, the tropical cyclone that tore through the Philippines last week, claiming the lives of a suspected 2,500 people and displacing close to 700,000.

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With the help of opensource data and a number of collaborative online tools, however, that small team is collaborating with international Red Cross teams and a staggering 746 digital volunteers that have, from their homes or cafes across the globe, made 1,751,278 changes to the OpenStreetMap (OSM) project.

read more via Wired.co






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