What is GIS?

What is CrowdMap?

Designed and built by the team behind Ushahidi, a platform that was originally built to crowdsource crisis information. This software running on a website allows users to set up their own deployments of Ushahidi without having to install it on a web server.

What is ESRI?

Environmental Systems Research Institute --is an international supplier of Geographic Information System (GIS) software, web GIS and geodatabase management applications. (Wikipedia 11/2014)

What does the acronym GIS stand for?

Geographic Information Systems, a computer system designed to capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, and present all types of spatial or geographical data. (Wikipedia 11/2014)

What does the acronym GPS stand for?

Global Positioning Satellite system is a space-based satellite navigation system that provides location and time information in all weather conditions, anywhere on or near the Earth where there is an unobstructed line of sight to 4 or more GPS satellites. (Wikipedia 11/2014)

What is crowdsourcing?

Obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people, and especially from an online community. (Wikipedia 11/2014)

What is ARCGIS?

Software used for creating and using maps; compiling geographic data; analyzing mapped information; sharing and discovering geographic information; using maps and geographic information in a range of applications; and managing geographic information in a database. (Wikipedia 11/2014)

Ushahidi

Ushahidi refers to "a platform that allows anyone to gather distributed data via SMS, email or web and visualize it on a map or timeline." Swahili word for 'witness' or 'testimony'.