The rise of collaborative mapping for the masses | Devex
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“Mapping is Like a Box of Chocolates.” So wrote Maliha Binte Mohiuddin — then a disaster management student at Bangladesh’s University of Dhaka — in 2016. That year, Mohiuddin’s university opened a chapter of YouthMappers, an organization of students, researchers, and educators that uses openly available geospatial technologies to address development issues.
How mapping skills can drive progress on the SDGs
Geospatial data has become more widely available, but new tools to turn real-time data into insight and action often launch without the training to help make sense of and act on data. SDGs Today is providing real-time data to bridge that gap.
Attending one of its training and “mapathon” initiatives — events where students gather for mapping tasks using tools including OpenStreetMap, or OSM — Mohiuddin found the experience an eye-opener that helped her apply her learnings to real-world situations and gain technical know-how.