Bjorn-Soren Gigler, a Senior Governance Specialist at the World Bank, sees the mapping project as a step towards righting that wrong.
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Such is the case with the collaborative mapping project OpenStreetMap (OSM).
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Mr Go reckons that urbanisation could be as low as 25%, based on data from the Global Rural Urban Mapping Project, a global population map.
Weeks' mapping project identified the entrance to KV5, the tombs of the sons of King Ramses II, at the spot where a bus turnaround was planned.
One of LRO's instruments, the Lyman Alpha Mapping Project (Lamp), detected enhanced concentrations of mercury and atomic hydrogen in the cloud from the demise of the twin spacecraft.
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Ludwig was right there with his open wallet and energy for a mapping project in Giza, where archaeologist Mark Lehner is looking for evidence of the civilization that built the Great Pyramids.
Ludwig was right there with his open wallet and energy for a similar mapping project in Giza, where archaeologist Mark Lehner is looking for evidence of the civilization that built the Great Pyramids.
The mapping project is an effort to tackle that notion head on, showing where each dollar of aid is going and hopefully spurring citizens in IDA countries to hold governments accountable for aid investments received.
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In addition to a sea floor mapping project, the researchers will make chemical analyses of water samples that will help them determine the temperature, salinity and composition of a strong circumpolar current that flows around the boundary of the Arctic Ocean.
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The Seeing Is Believing West Africa project is mapping local areas to provide more in depth information to farmers via their phones.
Unlike the effort to decode the human genome, or the project to put a man on the moon, the mapping of the human brain is a fuzzy endeavor, with no obvious milestones along the way.
Mapping projects, such as Ordnance Survey maps, will also benefit from the project he said.
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