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This nonprofit group is trying to make the world more equal — through mapping

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Maps tell us incredible amounts of information about the world around us — from where people are to how people interact with geography. And in the US and Western Europe, our maps seem to be updated in near-real time. But in the developing world, map data can be years, even decades, out of date.

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Google: The world’s most powerful cartographer

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Crowdsourcing crisis information in Kenya

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Google Maps: Walking Directions Now Online in 44 African Countries

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Google Street View for the Amazon

A team from Google recently went to the Amazon to make a “street view” of the forest and river in Google Maps.

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Inventions for saving the world (and helping Haiti now!)

Environment

The Takeaway looks at innovations that can help Haiti now. We’re not talking about sophisticated computer programs or gadgets, but low-tech, low-cost tools that are easy to use.

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In Kenya, Ushahidi hopes to save lives by ‘crowdsourcing’ crisis info

Environment

What if people living in conflict zones could predict where violence was going to break out? Kenyan developers are about to launch a new version of the software that will help communities around the world map and predict violence.

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Kenya bloggers monitor unrest

Post-election unrest in Kenya has been widespread and hard to monitor in real time, but some concerned bloggers are trying to help, and they’ve set up a website where Kenyans can report on what they see in their own communities

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