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World: Crisis Mapping, Humanitarian Principles and the application of Protection Standards - A dialogue between Crisis mappers and Operational Humanitarian Agencies

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World Vision
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The use of maps in humanitarian response is not a new phenomena - the shift with application of new technologies is in live mapping, which enables presentation on a map not only of geographic reference points, but also of events, needs, and stories. Live maps present material over both time and space - mappers collect information, visualize, analyse and geolocate events that allow for a response to that information. Live maps are not static but are ever-changing and[...]

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