What are the advantages of an open-source mapping platform when responding to humanitarian crises such as the one experienced in Haiti?

What will be an ideal response?


No one person has the time to make and disseminate all the spatial detail in the immediate timespan of an emergency. Therefore, open source mapping allows for unlimited input and immediate updating and the responders can maximize their efforts.

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A. Discharge interval B. Flood stage C. One year D. Recurrence interval

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A) an educated guess. B) less than a fact. C) a synthesis of a large body of well-tested knowledge. D) unchangeable.

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A) north B) south C) east D) west

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Each year, scientists measure the magnitude of how many earthquakes?

A. 100 B. 1,000 C. 25,000 D. 200,000 E. 1,000,000

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