Maps are central to all government decision making: they tell us where and who. The speed with which maps get made available by media outlets show just how much citizens crave spatial visibility when natural disaster strikes: it gives scale and context to an unfolding tragedy, but more importantly it enables governments to allocate resources and plan for future disasters. At the moment, it seems that spatial information only gets its dues when natural disasters strike, and even then it is generally disaggregated and confusing to citizens. Read More