HOT: CoMaps: The Offline App That Guided Rescuers Without a Signal in the Venezuela Response

CoMaps contributors Anton Wenemoser and Bastian Greshake Tzovaras spoke with the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team about how CoMaps was used during the earthquake response in Venezuela.

On the second day after the earthquake, Anton went down to what everyone had started calling ground zero, the hardest-hit area. He'd been helping in Caracas before, but now he was heading into a zone with no cell coverage. He didn't have to improvise: he already had the app on his phone.

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