DAKAR, Oct 23 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Urban scientists on Wednesday launched the first digital map of Africa's sprawl of slums to expose the true scale of urban poverty and bring services to ...

If you were to do a search for the Nairobi city slum of Mathare on Google Maps, you'd find little more than gray spaces between unmarked roads. Slums by nature are unplanned, primordial cities, the ...

Think of where we’d be without maps. Everything would be more difficult: getting to places you don’t know, building homes and infrastructure, working out who owned what. And so on. Simply: maps are ...

(Bloomberg) -- Adani Group is set to begin mapping Dharavi, one of Asia’s largest slums in the heart of Mumbai, within weeks as part of a controversial and extensive face-lift of India’s financial ...

A billion people worldwide live in slums, largely invisible to city services and governments — but not to satellites. A global movement is... In Kenya, Using Tech To Put An 'Invisible' Slum On The Map ...