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Excellent Reads@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 day ago

Can a crowdsourced map of the world help save millions of people from climate disaster?

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Can a crowdsourced map of the world help save millions of people from climate disaster?

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Excellent Reads@sh.itjust.worksEnglish · 1 day ago

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Volunteer cartographers on the island of St. Lucia are turning local knowledge into life-saving maps in the face of rising seas and stronger storms.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31690556

I thought this was quite a nice piece about OSM and the humanitarian mapping team.

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