Saturday, June 18, 2011

Disease Mapping with the Google Maps API

The mapping of diseases has a long and distinguished history.Perhaps the most famous disease map is the spot map created by John Snow in 1854. Snow created his map to plot an outbreak of cholera in Soho, London. The map helped to prove that the Soho outbreak of the disease was caused by water that came from one pump in Broad Street.The dominant theory at the time was that cholera was caused by "

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