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# Missing #maps: nothing less than a human genome project for cities
- URL: https://gnucoopcom-u2056.vm.elestio.app/blog/missing-maps-nothing-less-than-a-human-genome-project-for-cities/
- Published: 2014-11-13T09:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2014-11-13T09:00:00.000Z
- Author: Gnucoop Soc. Coop.
- Tags: #tk-97, #Import 2026-09-12 16:33

Location, location, location – it has been the founding myth of epidemiology since John Snow took addresses from cholera victims, put them on a map of London, traced the cholera outbreak to Soho and turned off the contaminated pump. And yet a century and a half after Snow’s breakthrough, cholera and other diseases continue to overrun the world. Part of the reason? A lack of basic maps.

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