Making maps to fight disaster, build economies
429,506 views|
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.