Making maps to fight disaster, build economies

Name: Making maps to fight disaster, build economies
Uploaded: 2010-01-13T09:11:00Z
Duration: 2 min 37 s
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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Lalitesh Katragadda |

TEDIndia 2009

• November 2009

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.