Making maps to fight disaster, build economies, Lalitesh Katragadda TED
We dont need to map things to think the world, we can update the maps day after day, from satellite view.
We attempted making maps of threats
and compute them real-time in what we call the Swarm Search Engine (Ozaki, Harada 2009) :
Politics today cannot be done efficiently without efficient vizualisation tools, and even better if they are real-time upadated (via GeoRSS for example)
