Video: Ted Talk Making maps to fight disaster, build economies

Original source: SimoleonSense.com .

Seems kind of timely doesn’t it…

About this talk

As of 2005, only 15 percent of the world was mapped. This slows the delivery of aid after a disaster — and hides the economic potential of unused lands and unknown roads. In this short talk, Google’s Lalitesh Katragadda demos Map Maker, a group map-making tool that people around the globe are using to map their world.

About Lalitesh Katragadda

Lalitesh Katragadda builds tools that help groups of people compile information to build something greater than the sum of its parts. His latest fascination: collaborative maps.

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