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HOW TO: Start using maps in your work
12 Jun 2009
Source: AlertNet
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In June 2009, AlertNet and MapAction hosted a workshop looking at how aid agencies can make better use of maps in their communications, advocacy and emergency responses. Map experts and representatives from the UK's leading aid agencies got together to share experiences and debate the opportunities and challenges involved.

We also ran a series of workshops looking at the more practical aspects of using map technologies. We've included materials from these workshops below, along with a blog looking at some of the issues raised by the event and a video of the panel discussion and Q&A.



WORKSHOP MATERIALS

Google Earth

Satellite maps

Using maps in your communications work

BLOG

Read a summary of the key points from the discussion and read comments posted by other map users:

VIDEO

Watch the panel discussion and lively Q&A:

Background information


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An Afghan girl touches her mother's artificial leg at the ICRC Ali Abad Orthopaedic centre in Kabul in this November 12, 2009 file photo. Throughout Afghanistan's tumultuous history, warring factions have ...



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