The volunteers mapping South Africa's power grid - and more
OpenStreetMap's Grant Slater talks to TechCentral about the power of crowdsourced maps and how a detailed map of the Southern African power grid was created.
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What Oil, Satellite Technology and Iraq can Tell us About Pollution
Few countries have oil reserves as deep as Iraq. The extractive industries bring jobs and tax revenues to a nation that has been hobbled by invasion, war and insurgency for close to two decades. Yet this economic activity comes at a cost. Oil spills, pollution and declining air quality have taken a significant toll on the environment, and on the health of many Iraqis. On top of this, greenhouse gas emissions from the oil industry continue to contribute to global warming while some areas of Iraq are expected to become uninhabitable in the coming decades. Yet assessing the true scale of the i...
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