Quantock Orienteers and The Missing Maps Project

Information supplied by Judy Craddock member of Quantock Orienteers

The Missing Maps Project was set up by the British and American Red Cross, Medecins Sans Frontiers, and Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team to produce maps of vulnerable areas in the developing world that can be used to support humanitarian aid and disaster relief.

Quantock Orienteers would like to encourage orienteers to help with this effort as they already have the map awareness needed. The mapping is done using OpenStreetMap, which many members will be familiar with as we use it to create the base data for our Street Series maps.

Putting the World’s Vulnerable People on the Map – find out more and how to get involved here.