By: Sagar Arlekar & Niket Narang

The authors are researchers at the Center for Study of Science, Technology and Policy (CSTEP), Bengalore. They work in the fields of GIS and Agent-Based Simulation. At CSTEP they have built a web-based GIS framework to simulate and visualize disaster impact. They love working with open source tools and are active contributors to Openstreetmaps.