Finding the 'invisible' millions who are not on maps

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How open map data is filling in the world's missing maps and helping trace the spread of disease.

"There are about two billion people in the world who don't appear on a proper map," says Ivan Gayton from the charity Humanitarian OpenStreetMap.

As we sit in Rwanda, Mr Gayton gestures into the distance:"It's not very far from here, over in the Democratic Republic of Congo just across the border, where the information all but stops. It's not like people don't live there, they just aren't recorded."Mr Gayton says it can be a matter of life and death."If you take an outbreak of disease like Ebola or the new coronavirus, contact tracing is how you stop epidemics.

She cites examples such as flooding, where up-to-date maps are needed urgently."We can work out where the most critical need is, and then aid can be better targeted in a natural disaster or epidemic situation." Maps are the building blocks of economic development. Without accurate maps it's not just navigating from A to B that can be difficult - the essential tasks of proper planning for housing and infrastructure can be impossible.The World Bank's Edward Anderson has worked on mapping efforts for the last decade, first in the Pacific, and now in Africa.

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Stay the fuck away from africa.

Would just like to point out that maps are for showing land mass and not people

..and that includes the millions in the U.K. who we don’t know about.

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