August 28, 2010
- The map presents a total building count and damage as assessed from both satellite and post event aerial survey imagery covering the Commune of Port-au-Prince. Damaged buildings were classified according to
visually-assessed damage levels. At this time this is one of the most accurate and complete damage map I have seen for this event.
... A statement from Doug Band: "President Bill Clinton was admitted to the Columbia Campus of New York Presbyterian Hospital after feeling discomfort in his chest. Following a visit to his cardiologist, he underwent a procedure to place two stents in one of his coronary arteries. President Clinton is in good spirits and will continue to focus on the work of his Foundation and Haiti's relief and long-term...
Please find the first draft version of a 8.5 x 11" (or A4 ISO page size) 1:25,000 street atlas for Concepcion, Chile at the link provided below. Data is courtesy of OpenStreetMap. We would welcome additional (but reasonable) requests, comments, and feedback. We've used some new compression techniques that squeeze the entire atlas down to 0.8MB in size. Just in case that's still too large, we've still made each page individually available. Total number of 1:25,000...
- Dear All,
My fellow co-founder of this CrisisMappers Network, Jen Ziemke, kindly put together an excellent Executive Summary that concretely details the incredible collaboration by members of this network. Truly remarkable to see the extent of the rapid information sharing and collaboration in the disaster response. I highly recommend looking through this:
http://...
August 24, 2010
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August 20, 2010
- The primary communications tool used in the Orange Revolution" in the Ukraine was the mobile phone, SMS/txt messaging. SMS played the vital role in organizing and rallying citizens. The following year in "elections" in Belarus, the government, having seen what happened in the Ukraine, shut down the cellular network. In Shanghai, police used SMS messaging to warn citizens to stay away from anti-Japan protests. In Cambodia, during governing council elections, mobile networks were shut down for...
August 18, 2010
ReliefWeb has put together a comprehensive briefing kit for the ongoing floods in Pakistan, which are reported to have affected 20 million people to date, and killed an estimated 1,600. This is an excellent resource for comprehensive overview of the disaster.
http://wiki.ict4peace.org/f/Pakistan_Floods__Jul_2010-OCHA-88FJ4Q.pdf...
August 5, 2010
Friday Holiday, burgers, steaks and Splugen!
Date: Aug 5, 2010
Number of Photos in Album: 21- My office, the US Agency for International Development's Office of
Transition Initiatives, is looking for a web GIS developer to help us do more
web 2.0 things. Are you looking, or do you know anybody who's looking?
The Office of Transition Initiatives works in countries in political
transition, like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Uganda, Colombia and the like.
The person would be part of the IT/GIS team and would...