Table 3.

A selection of internet-based animal and human-health projects using Google Maps or Google Earth™ to visualise disease data.

Project/Organisation (URL)	Description
HealthMap and its mobile app Outbreaks Near Me; (http://www.healthmap.org)	A global disease alert map which aggregates data from a wide range of sources to deliver real-time intelligence on a broad range of emerging infectious diseases. The app includes a participatory surveillance feature that allows users to report outbreaks not yet shown on the map and be credited for their contribution
Predict; (http://www.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/ohi/predict/index.cfm & http://healthmap.org/predict)	Focuses on detection and discovery of zoonotic diseases at the wildlife-human interface and through the HealthMap website provides a dynamic visual display of surveillance data
Animal Disease Reporting System (TSN); (http://www.fli.bund.de/en/startseite/institutes/institute-of-epidemiology/working-groups/tierseuchennachrichten-tsn.html)	An electronic system for the registration of notifiable and reportable animal diseases in Germany. Disease events can be visualized using Google Earth™ and Google Maps™
CONTRAST (Utzinger et al., 2013, Stensgaard et al., 2009)	A multi-disciplinary research platform aimed at investigating control of schistosomiasis
The Malaria Atlas Project (MAP); (http://www.map.ox.ac.uk)	MAP uses innovative methods to produce a comprehensive range of malaria maps and estimates to support effective planning of global malaria control at national and international levels
Multi Locus Sequence Typing; (Databases: http://www.mlst.net Maps: http://maps.mlst.net)	Provides basic epidemiological and molecular typing data for a number of bacterial and fungal pathogens and maps the distribution of pathogen genotypes