ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Lalitesh Katragadda - Engineer
Lalitesh Katragadda builds tools that help groups of people compile information to build something greater than the sum of its parts. His latest fascination: collaborative maps.

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Lalitesh Katragadda is a software engineer at Google, working on geo-data, machine vision, machine learning and space robotics. Before joining Google, Lalitesh founded a robotics startup that was acquired by Google. At Google, Lalitesh co-founded Google India and was its founding Joint Center Head for two years. He co-started several projects including Google Finance and Hindi Transliteration, and is now working on maps.

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Lalitesh Katragadda: Making maps to fight disaster, build economies

Lalitesh Katragadda: Izrađivanjem mapa pobjeđujemo bolesti, gradimo ekonomije

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Do 2005. samo je 15% svijeta bilo mapirano. Ovo usporava dostavu pomoći nakon nesreće -- i skriva ekonomski potencijal neiskorištene zemlje i nepoznatih cesta. U ovom kratkom govoru, Googleov Lalitesh Katragadda prodstavlja Map Maker, skupinu alata za izradu karata koje koriste ljudi širom svijeta kako bi mapirali svoj kraj.
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In 2008, CycloneCiklona NargisGoran devastatedrazoren MyanmarMianmar.
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2008. ciklon Nargis je uništio Myanmar.
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MillionsMilijuna of people were in severeozbiljan need of help.
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Milijuni ljudi su ozbiljno trebali pomoć.
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The U.N. wanted to rushžuriti people and suppliespribor to the areapodručje.
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UN je namjeravao hitno poslati ljude i potrepštine.
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But there were no mapskarata, no mapskarata of roadsceste,
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Ali nisu postojale karte, karte cesta,
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no mapskarata showingpokazivanje hospitalsbolnice, no way for help to reachdohvatiti the cycloneciklona victimsžrtve.
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nije bilo karata koje su pokazivale bolnice, nije postojao način da se pomogne žrtvama.
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When we look at a mapkarta of LosLos AngelesAngeles or LondonLondon,
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Kada pogledamo kartu Los Angelesa ili Londona
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it is hardteško to believe
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teško je povjerovati
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that as of 2005, only 15 percentposto of the worldsvijet
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kako je 2005. samo 15% svijeta
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was mappedmapiranje to a geo-codableGeo-codable levelnivo of detaildetalj.
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bilo mapirano na gedetskoj razini.
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The U.N. ranran headfirstglavom naprijed into a problemproblem
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UN je naglavce krenuo riješiti problem
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that the majorityvećina of the world'ssvijetu populousnaseljenih faceslica:
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kako većina svjetske slike stanovništva
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not havingima detaileddetaljne mapskarata.
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nema dovoljno deteljne podatke.
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But help was comingdolazak.
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Ali pomoć je dolazila.
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At GoogleGoogle, 40 volunteersvolonteri
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U Googleu, 40 volontera
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used a newnovi softwaresoftver
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koristeći nove programe
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to mapkarta 120,000 kilometerskilometara of roadsceste,
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mapiralo je 120,000 kilometara cesta
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3,000 hospitalsbolnice, logisticsLogistika and reliefolakšanje pointsbodova.
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3,000 bolnica, logističke i točke pomoći.
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And it tookuzeo them fourčetiri daysdana.
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Trebala su im četiri dana.
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The newnovi softwaresoftver they used? GoogleGoogle MapmakerIzrađene karte.
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Novi program koji su koristili? Google Mapmaker.
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GoogleGoogle MapmakerIzrađene karte is a technologytehnologija that empowersosnažuje eachsvaki of us
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Google Mapmaker je tehnologija koja svakom od nas omogućuje
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to mapkarta what we know locallylokalno.
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da mapiramo ono što lokalno znamo.
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People have used this softwaresoftver
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Ljudi koji su koristili ovaj program
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to mapkarta everything from roadsceste to riversrijeka,
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kako bi mapirali sve od cesta do rijeka
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from schoolsškola to locallokalne businessespoduzeća,
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od škola do lokalnih radnji,
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and videovideo storestrgovinama to the cornerugao storedućan.
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od videoteka do malih dućana.
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MapsKarte matterstvar.
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Karte su bitne.
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NobelNobelovu PrizeNagrada nomineekandidat HernandoHernando DeDe SotoSoto
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Hernando De Soto, nominiran za Nobelovu nagradu
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recognizedpriznat that the keyključ to economicekonomski liftoffpolijetanje
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prepoznao je kako je ključ ekonomskog razvitka
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for mostnajviše developingrazvoju countrieszemlje
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za većinu zemalja u razvoju
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is to tapslavina the vastogroman amountsiznosi of uncapitalizeduncapitalized landzemljište.
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jest da prikupe informacije o velikim količinama nekapitalizirane zemlje.
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For exampleprimjer, a trillionbilijuna dollarsdolara
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Na primjer, bilijun dolara
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of realstvaran estateimanje remainsostaci uncapitalizeduncapitalized in IndiaIndija alonesam.
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nekretnina je nekapitalizirano samo u Indiji.
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In the last yeargodina alonesam,
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Samo prošle godine,
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thousandstisuća of usersKorisnici in 170 countrieszemlje
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tisuće korisnika u 170 zemalja
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have mappedmapiranje millionsmilijuni of pieceskomada of informationinformacija,
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je mapiralo milijune informacija
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and createdstvorio a mapkarta of a levelnivo of detaildetalj never thought viablesposoban za život.
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i kreiralo mapu najdetaljniju do sada.
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And this was madenapravljen possiblemoguće by
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A ovo je sve stvarno zbog
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the powervlast of passionatestrasan usersKorisnici everywheresvugdje, posvuda.
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snage strastvenih korisnika širom svijeta.
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Let's look at some of the mapskarata
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Pogledajmo neke mape
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beingbiće createdstvorio by usersKorisnici right now.
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koje upravo sada kreiraju korisnici
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So, as we speakgovoriti, people are mappingkartografija the worldsvijet
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Dok pričamo ljudi mapiraju svijet
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in these 170 countrieszemlje.
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u ovih 170 država.
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You can see BridgetBridget in AfricaAfrika who just mappedmapiranje a roadcesta in SenegalSenegal.
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Možete vidjeti Bridget u Africi koja je upravo mapirala cestu u Senegalu.
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And, closerbliže to home, ChaluaChalua, an N.G. roadcesta in BangaloreBangalore.
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I, bliže kući, Chalua, cestu u Bangaloreu.
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This is the resultproizlaziti of computationalračunalna geometrygeometrija,
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Ovo je rezultat kompjuterske geometrije,
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gesturegest recognitionpriznanje, and machinemašina learningučenje.
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prepoznavanja pokreta, i učenja strojeva.
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This is a victorypobjeda of thousandstisuća of usersKorisnici,
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Ovo je pobjeda tisuća korisnika,
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in hundredsstotine of citiesgradovi,
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u stotinama gradova,
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one userkorisnik, one editUredi at a time.
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jednog korisnika, jedan opis po jedan.
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This is an invitationpoziv to the 70 percentposto
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Ovo je pozivnica za 70%
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of our unmappedNepreslikani planetplaneta.
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našeg nemapiranog planeta.
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WelcomeDobrodošli to the newnovi worldsvijet.
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Dobrodošli u novi svijet.
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(ApplausePljesak)
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(Pljesak)

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Lalitesh Katragadda - Engineer
Lalitesh Katragadda builds tools that help groups of people compile information to build something greater than the sum of its parts. His latest fascination: collaborative maps.

Why you should listen

Lalitesh Katragadda is a software engineer at Google, working on geo-data, machine vision, machine learning and space robotics. Before joining Google, Lalitesh founded a robotics startup that was acquired by Google. At Google, Lalitesh co-founded Google India and was its founding Joint Center Head for two years. He co-started several projects including Google Finance and Hindi Transliteration, and is now working on maps.

More profile about the speaker
Lalitesh Katragadda | Speaker | TED.com