In #Kenya, Using Tech To Put An ’Invisible’ Slum On The #Map
If you were to do a search for the Nairobi city slum of Mathare on , you’d find little more than gray spaces between unmarked roads.
Slums by nature are unplanned, primordial cities, the opposite of well-ordered city grids. Squatters rights rule, and woe to the visitor who ventures in without permission. But last year, a group of activist cartographers called the started walking around Mathare typing landmarks into hand-held #GPS devices.
▻http://www.npr.org/blogs/parallels/2013/07/17/202656235/in-kenya-using-tech-to-put-an-invisible-slum-on-the-map
#carte #cartographie #bidonville
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