The Geo-Wiki Project is a global network of volunteers who wish to help improve
the quality of global land cover maps. Since large differences occur between
existing global land cover maps, current ecosystem and land-use science lacks
crucial accurate data (e.g. to determine the potential of additional agricultural
land available to grow crops in Africa). Volunteers are asked to review hotspot
maps of global land cover disagreement and determine, based on what they actually
see in Google Earth and their local knowledge, if the land cover maps are correct
or incorrect. Their input is recorded in a database, along with uploaded photos,
to be used in the future for the creation of a new and improved global land cover map.
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