Key benefits of building with Mapbox
Key benefits of building with Mapbox:
- Mapbox Studio and GL JS enable rapid map creation essential for crisis response
- Permanent Geocoding API offers precise location data for quick situational awareness
- Customized map styles and data layers provide clear, targeted visualization for both on-ground teams and global supporters
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The disaster logistics experts at World Central Kitchen know how to respond quickly and effectively when people are hungry. The non-profit organization, founded in 2010 by Chef José Andrés, provides fresh meals in response to crises while working to build resilient food systems with locally-led solutions.
Within hours of a natural disaster or humanitarian crisis, the WCK relief team is getting meals to first responders and those affected, with help from their internal map application built with GL JS.
Deploying their model of quick action, leveraging local resources, and adapting in real time, WCK is able to respond to multiple disasters at once — often on opposite ends of the world. Responding to the humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, World Central Kitchen coordinates and communicates their distribution of millions of meals, food kits, and bulk product using digital and print maps, produced with support from Mapbox volunteers.
During the Covid-19 pandemic WCK’s Chefs for America efforts distributed 35+ million meals across the United States, data which World Central Kitchen then visualized in an interactive map built with GL JS for their annual report.
