From Digital Democracy:
At Digital Democracy we are working with indigenous communities in the Amazon to create maps of their own neighbourhoods, their territory: farms, fishing sites and hunting trails essential to feeding the family; old village sites where grandparents lie buried; sacred spaces for reflection and healing. Armed with maps they themselves create, our partners are fighting to protect their ancestral rainforest home and hold oil, mining and logging companies accountable for contamination and deforestation of their territory.
OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a free, editable map of the world created by volunteers. Easy to learn tools make it simple for anybody to map their house, their street, their neighbourhood, and collaborate with thousands of other users around the world to create a global map that rivals Google Maps for accuracy and detail...[more]
