Su segnalazione di @lara, tratto da fastcolabs.com.

La difficoltà di trattare il contagio di ebola sta anche nella mappatura delle aree di diffusione, spesso sconosciute. Mappatura che le ONG stanno facendo tramite OpenStreetMap e l’Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT). fastcolabs.com parla di questo progetto.

According to Doctors Without Borders, “one the biggest challenges the team faced was that the names of many villages were unknown.” There are also many villages with similar or identical names. For example, the village name Bendou exists 14 times within the prefecture.
Many villages also have multiple names. The village of Rosos in Sierra Leone is also known as Sos, for example. If a sick patient tells a doctor they come from “Sos” and a map only knows that village as Rosos, it can lead to delays, and unnecessary trips to the wrong locations can expose staff to additional risks in a country where the doctors are not always welcome.