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Purdue University researchers want to develop a powerful Web-based system that enables people around the world to better predict natural disasters. The project will add geospatial data hosting, processing, and sharing capabilities to Purdue's HUBzero, a platform for building future-rich websites enabling research and education. The researchers say that if the project is successful, it could lead to the easy development of a variety of Web-enabled tools for probing and presenting geospatial data in ways that can help address pressing issues around the world. "We want to have tools where people can integrate multiple data sets in the way they want and extract information based on these multiple data sets," says Purdue professor Venkatesh Merwade. The project should open geospatial data and sophisticated analysis tools to almost anyone, and enable ready sharing of data and results, as well as collaboration among users. To read further, please visit http://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2013/Q4/geospatial-data-project-will-let-almost-anyone-put-almost-anything-on-map.html