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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Openstreetmap@feddit.uk · 1 year ago

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.

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Discussion on the Openstreetmap service that has the most open map data that began in 2004.

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