Missing Maps: what is Baraka ... and how can you help map it? | Cities | The Guardian
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Che Guevara kicked around Baraka, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in the 1960s. Now it is a thriving trading city – but still lacks a basic digital map. Guardian readers are setting out to change that
Before ... the HOT task manager shows Baraka, DRC as currently unmapped. Photograph: Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Chris Michael
Thursday 6 November 2014 14.26 GMT
A huge number of human settlements remain unmapped. Tomorrow, the Missing Maps project sets out to fix that, with an unprecedented plan to map the world’s forgotten places.
A collaboration between the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT), Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and the British and American Red Cross, Missing Maps aims to use remote mapping to develop free, open-source maps for every settlement on Earth – particularly those areas prone to disaster and diseases such as Ebola. It’s a kind of human genome project for the world’s cities.