Best-kept secret? Google move shows mapping risks
Bangkok, ThailandThomson Reuters Foundation A request by Australian authorities for Google to remove photographs of the top of a sacred Indigenous site has sparked a debate on how to better protect such places and whether mapping tools are increasing privacy and conservation risks. Parks Australia, which is responsible for the national park where Uluru is […]
Data collection: Volunteer armies map ‘invisible’ communities hit by coronavirus
RINA CHANDRAN, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, on initiatives to get local communities involved in mapping to support humanitarian actions…