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By Press Association 2021
People like Samantha have been working from their bedrooms and living rooms helping to plot millions of buildings on previously blank areas of Tanzania (William Boles/PA)
Volunteer mappers in the UK have described their “incredible” and “rewarding” experiences in lockdown helping to fight female genital mutilation (FGM) thousands of miles away in east Africa.
The Crowd2Map project has gained almost 3,000 new mappers since the beginning of March last year, bringing the total number to around 16,000 from across the globe.
Almost a third of the people working from their bedrooms and living rooms helping to plot millions of buildings on previously blank areas of Tanzania on OpenStreetMap are from the UK, said London-based project founder Janet Chapman.