UN-SPIDER and the Crowdsourcing Community (gis.Business)

The article written by UN-SPIDER was published in the German language in gis.Business (issue 03/2014) in March 2014. It summarizes the importance of crowdsourced data for emergency mapping and disaster risk mapping, including hazard maps and risk analysis. It also highlights the role of UN-SPIDER in bringing together the crowdsourcing community on the one side and policy makers or disaster responders on the other hand.

Download the article (in German)

The proceedings of the AGIT 2014 conference took place from 2 to 4 July 2014 in Salzburg, Austria.