{"id":77764,"date":"2019-01-23T17:04:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T17:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.microsoft.com\/?p=430926"},"modified":"2019-01-23T17:04:10","modified_gmt":"2019-01-23T17:04:10","slug":"open-source-effort-is-helping-map-at-risk-areas-in-the-developing-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/01\/23\/open-source-effort-is-helping-map-at-risk-areas-in-the-developing-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Open-source effort is helping map at-risk areas in the developing world"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When disaster hits, be it a natural disaster, epidemic, poverty or other crisis, first responders rely on GIS data to access the areas impacted.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Missing Maps\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/open-source-effort-is-helping-map-at-risk-areas-in-the-developing-world.png\" \/>Missing Maps is an open-source collaborative effort founded by the American Red Cross, British Red Cross, Medicine Sans Frontiers, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hotosm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team<\/a> where volunteers help to map areas in an effort to ensure that many of the places previously missing from maps can be located and reached.<\/p>\n<p>Millions of edits are made to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">OpenStreetMap<\/a> by thousands of volunteers and members of the OpenStreetMap community.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<\/p>\n<p>Moved by the Missing Maps objective, \u201cTo map the most vulnerable places in the developing world, in order that international and local NGOs and individuals can use the maps and data to better respond to crises affecting the areas,\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missingmaps.org\/partners\/microsoft\/\" target=\"_blank\">teams at Microsoft<\/a> are contributing time, resources and technical expertise to the project.<\/p>\n<p>Since initiating the program at Microsoft, over four thousand employees have been trained in contributing to OpenStreetMap at hundreds of mapathons across the company. With the goal to \u201cput 200 million people \u2018on the map\u2019 by 2021,\u201d we hope you are inspired to get involved too!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Missing Maps and to start mapping, go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missingmaps.org\/\">www.missingmaps.org<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Bing Maps Team<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When disaster hits, be it a natural disaster, epidemic, poverty or other crisis, first responders rely on GIS data to access the areas impacted. Missing Maps is an open-source collaborative effort founded by the American Red Cross, British Red Cross, Medicine Sans Frontiers, and the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team where volunteers help to map areas in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[286,50],"class_list":["post-77764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-microsoft-news","tag-bing-maps","tag-recent-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}