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Investing in MapSwipe: Humanitarian technology, virtual volunteering, and maps for good
22. 8. 2023
To bolster and expand the impact of MapSwipe, the American Red Cross has supported upgrades to the app.
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Tallying the contributions of the MapSwipe community
31. 1. 2023
We are excited that the American Red Cross has supported the development and launch of new functionalities for contribution analytics including the concept of groups which allow users to aggregate tallies of their efforts.
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Change detection analysis in response to Cyclone Batsirai Madagascar
15. 8. 2022
To respond to the cyclone emergency in Madagascar, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) used a new MapSwipe method developed by the Heidelberg Institute of Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) and Laurent Savaete, a long-time MapSwipe software engineer.
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Enhancing Accessibility in MapSwipe
5. 8. 2024
The American Red Cross is excited to announce the launch of new functionality in the MapSwipe app. We supported an enhancement to make MapSwipe more accessible and easy to use for a wider community of users.
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The early history of MapSwipe
14. 11. 2023
The real story of MapSwipe is the volunteers who give their time to improve humanitarian mapping, the agencies that use the data to save and improve lives, and the incredible developers who continue to build and maintain MapSwipe and make it a key tool in the open mapping ecosystem. However, we hope people sometimes remember how we originally built MapSwipe.
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Using MapSwipe to validate OSM building quality data in Nigeria
19. 10. 2023
Using the MapSwipe data, the Nigerian Red Cross are now able to see the accuracy of the previous mapping and any edits that need to be made to the community map as it is today.
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Solid waste management in Mali - Sustaining livelihoods amidst COVID-19 shutdowns.
15. 2. 2022
To support economic livelihoods and resilience, the World Bank partnered with MapSwipe to identify solid waste in Bamako, Mali.
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MapSwipe app lets public help deliver medical care to most vulnerable
19. 7. 2016
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) unveils a first-of-its-kind mobile phone app in which people across the globe can locate communities in remote parts of the world affected by natural disasters, disease outbreaks or conflict.
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