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All Hands on Open Data: Mapping the Famine

Kate Gage | USAID Public Affairs | September 23, 2011

If you have seen maps of the drought and subsequent famine in the Horn of Africa, including those from our FWD campaign, they probably include color-coded areas that show the extent and severity of crisis. Read More »

From Reactive to Preventative Health Care – a Role for Open Map Standards

By Eddie Oldfield | May 24, 2013

Over the past decade, health authorities have used geospatial technologies to help respond to influenza outbreaks, plan responses to public health risks of extreme weather conditions, implement breast cancer programs, track West Nile virus, and much more. Wider use of OGC [Open Geospatial Consortium] standards by the health mapping community would make more data and processing resources discoverable, assessable and accessible. On May 31 the OGC will hold a free public webinar to review the charter for an OGC Health Domain Working Group. Read More »