Maps of Hunger and Poverty in Google Earth

Google Earth is one of those tools that has countless applications in education. Below is another good example. The Google Earth Blog notes that Declan Butler, an editor for Nature Magazine, has come across some GIS data related to world poverty that has been published by Columbia University. He converted the data for display in Google Earth.

The files below will download and open in Google Earth:
global hunger map
global infant mortality rate map

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