GeoHackers are a group of GIS experts from India. They use Open Mapping Technologies like OpenStreetMaps, OpenLayers etc. for innovative and practical applications (or maps just for fun!).

They spread mapping skills with mapping parties and come up with training and consultancy for the same.

GeoHackers are a group of GIS experts from India. They use Open Mapping Technologies like OpenStreetMaps, OpenLayers etc. for innovative and practical applications (or maps just for fun!).

They spread mapping skills with mapping parties and come up with training and consultancy for the same.

mog, fast-vanishing forest space, protest marches, human rights abuses and myriad such events and activities need constant attention and backing. Highlighting such issues is no more a herculean task for advocacy groups. Information, communication and digital technologies have smoothened out processes and systems and contain techniques and tools which, if appropriately used, can easily bring about phenomenal change.

Geographical maps are the latest transformation tools that the technological revolution has enabled.

The Darfur project (http://www.ushmm.org/maps/) undertaken by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) where mapping was used to expose a humanitarian crisis in Sudan is a prime example. Combining mapping and rich content, witness testimonies, satellite imagery, data and other information placed on a Google Earth map, the USHMM raised awareness of the reality of incidents in the Sudanese region.