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Google software and mapping the ‘dark continent’

Written byJennifer Brea
Posted 8 November 2008 5:18 GMT

Tropically Tolerant writes about the potential of new Google software, which allows local people to draw GIS data on top of satellite imagery, to help map regions of the world, like Africa, where GIS data may be scant or nonexistent.

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