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Geospatial Support for the UN World Food Programme

The MapScaping Podcast - GIS, Geospatial, Remote Sensing, earth observation and digital geography

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World Food Program Base Layers

Even Google Maps or OpenStreet Maps will not be updated in most areas where the World Food Program operates. WFP currently operates in 123 countries around the world that most of the challenging context you would base on is Afghanistan and Somalia. So we don't do the layers of ourselves, collect the data of ourselves when it is not needed. We rely on partners to be able to provide, but we gather them, clean them and keep them in a way which is quickly accessed during response.

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