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In 2010, a devastating earthquake struck Haiti yesterday, today OpenStreetMap volunteers got their hands on first recent aerial imagery of the situation and started mapping. Within a week they had accomplished the unprecedented feat of providing disaster relief teams with up-to-date, street-level maps of the disaster zone.




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