Making maps to fight disaster, build economies

Title:
Making maps to fight disaster, build economies
Speaker:
Lalitesh Katragadda
Description:

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.

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Video Language:
English
Team:
closed TED
Project:
TEDTalks
Duration:
02:38
Format: HTML5
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