Britain urged to use colonial-era maps to resolve Himalayan border dispute

Britain has been urged to resolve Nepal’s long-running border dispute using its colonial-era maps. Balendra Shah, Nepal’s ...

KS3 Geography: Locational knowledge – Travelling through China, India and Nepal

A clip from the BBC series Race Across the World exploring map-reading skills whilst travelling across China, India and Nepal ...
Nepali Times

Navigating Nepal with new digital maps

Nama Raj Budhathoki was doing his PhD in the US when he came back to Nepal in 2009 and made plans to have dinner with a friend. He received a long, complicated email from his friend with directions to ...
WLRN

Virtual Volunteers Use Twitter And Facebook To Make Maps Of Nepal

Kathmandu Living Labs' earthquake site collects data about conditions and needs. Each blue dot represents the number of reports of help wanted — medical, food, water or shelter — near Kathmandu. The ...
The Atlantic

The Internet Mapmakers Helping Nepal

The night after the earthquake hit Nepal, people feared to sleep in their homes, worrying about powerful aftershocks toppling the few buildings left standing. They slept instead in tents, in the ...
NPR

Virtual Volunteers Use Twitter And Facebook To Make Maps Of Nepal

The village of Melamchighyang needs 100 blankets. The remote area of Hyolmo has many injuries, and only two nonprofit groups are providing "limited aid." Two girls from Germany are missing in Langlang ...