Teenagers in Rio De Janeiro are teaming up with the United Nations and a nonprofit to document local health dangers. But it’s not your usual mapping project: The teens hacked kites (which are popular ...

Think of where we’d be without maps. Everything would be more difficult: getting to places you don’t know, building homes and infrastructure, working out who owned what. And so on. Simply: maps are ...

DAKAR, Oct 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Urban scientists on Wednesday launched the first digital map of Africa's sprawl of slums to expose the true scale of urban poverty and bring services to ...

A billion people worldwide live in slums, largely invisible to city services and governments — but not to satellites. A global movement is... In Kenya, Using Tech To Put An 'Invisible' Slum On The Map ...

(Bloomberg) -- Adani Group is set to begin mapping Dharavi, one of Asia’s largest slums in the heart of Mumbai, within weeks as part of a controversial and extensive face-lift of India’s financial ...

In 1854, physician John Snow identified the main source of a cholera epidemic in London using a map, and with it established the field of epidemiology. In a lecture theatre — fittingly named after ...

If you were to do a search for the Nairobi city slum of Mathare on Google Maps, you'd find little more than gray spaces between unmarked roads. Slums by nature are unplanned, primordial cities, the ...