In the month of April 2022, Emily and several other members of the East Cobb Branch of AYLUS contributed to the Missing Maps project.
Missing Maps entails the members using the HOT (Humanitarian OSM Team) Tasking Manager to create maps for OpenStreetMap. The members are shown a satellite image from Bing and must trace the image’s buildings and streets, adding to the map. The map data is relayed onto thousands of websites, apps, and hardware devices as a GPS so that it can be used by people like first responders. This is especially important because parts of the world that are vulnerable to natural disasters and conflicts may be able to receive help through the map.
Reported by Emily Sun
Attendance:
Isabel Liu (3 hours on 4/29),
Albert Zhang (2 hours on 4/16),
Emily Sun
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