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Can a crowdsourced map of the world help save millions of people from climate disaster? (grist.org)

submitted 1 month ago by mondoman712@lemmy.ml to c/openstreetmap@lemmy.ml

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I thought this was quite a nice piece about OSM and the humanitarian mapping team.

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[–] InsertUser@en.osm.town 1 points 1 month ago

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Seems to confuse HOT and OSM in general in a few places.

And I found the timeline bit confusing. Was Google running in parallel to Keyhole for a bit before acquisition or are they just mentioning Google before they got involved?

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