Data-Smart City Solutions at the Harvard Kennedy School is monitoring the use of GIS technology to inform the public health response to the coronavirus pandemic.
Mathew Leger gathers a list of some of the new innovative mapping solutions created by the GIS community across the world to support local responses to the coronavirus pandemic.
Pulling from International examples, Leger includes projects that measure park capacity in Singapore, self-reported health symptoms in Switzerland, hospital wait times in Northern Ireland, and more.
The latest post by Leger is the third in an ongoing series of similarly themed collections. The first and second posts highlighted both U.S.-based best practices and a couple of international examples.
FULL STORY: COVID-19 Response: GIS Best Practices from Across the Globe
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