This is not only limited to crowd-sourcing politically. After getting help from the international community we gave help back to the international community. There was this earthquake in Nepal. If you look at Google or Apple maps the only street-level maps are around Kathmandu and the connecting roads. The very small roads - the country roads - were not mapped by street cars because cars don’t drive on them. There is a lack of mapping around that area. After the earthquake everybody needs the mapping otherwise the UN and other relief organizations couldn’t send the supplies to the regions in need. The open street map team worked with g0v and the humanitarian teams in other countries. It is a very international effort to digitize in the same way we did for the campaign finance records. They divide the maps into very small map areas. If you are mapping the first time you receive a very small area. You mark one of the circles: o Is the road broken / o Is there a building / …

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