# Lalitesh Katragadda: Making maps to fight disaster, build economies

As of 2005, only 15 percent of the world was mapped. This slows the delivery of aid after a disaster -- and hides the economic potential of unused lands and unknown roads. In this short talk, Google's Lalitesh Katragadda demos Map Maker, a group map-making tool that people around the globe are using to map their world.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2010
- Runtime: 2 min
- By: TED.com
- Genres: Education, Science
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/LaliteshKatragadda_2009I)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-NC-ND 3.0](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/LaliteshKatragadda_2009I?play=1)