Crowdsourcing and GPS in Remote Namibia

Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 04.29.08 | 10:30 AM ET

Interesting example of how user-generated info and hand-held GPS devices are changing travel.

Jim Benning is the editor and co-founder of World Hum.

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