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/ Infectious disease map /

In recent centuries, the western world has made
great progress in producing maps and applications,
the United Kingdom is one the greatest.

• Infectious Disease Map – during a cholera
outbreak in the 19th century, Dr John Snow
questioned the mainstream opinion of an airborne
virus, he mapped the homes of the cholera
deceased and found that the deceased used the
104 same street public water pump, so he persuaded
the authorities to cut off the water supply and
successfully stopped the epidemic.

• The world's largest map producer – The original
work of the Ordnance Survey, which was
established more than 200 years ago, was military
mapping. During the First World War (1914-1918),
more than 300 million maps were produced by the
Ordinance Survey for military use.

Today, the Ordnance Survey is one of the world's
largest map producers, it updates 7 local maps
per minute for British MasterMap and undertakes
over 10,000 updates per day to ensure map
accuracy.