UW News
Jessica Kaminsky
June 1, 2015
UW students use open source mapping to aid relief efforts in Nepal
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University of Washington civil and environmental engineering students have joined a 4,000-volunteer crowdsourcing effort to turn satellite imagery of Nepal into maps that aid earthquake relief efforts.