Haïti: remote efficiency

Haïti: remote efficiency

• OpenStreetMap is a Creative Commons project, sort of geographic Wiki.
• The members of this open community reacted promptly by drawing the precise map of the catastrophy.
• This map is updated in real time.
• Yellow crosses indicate the streets blocked by obstacles.
• Yellow crosses on red background are the collapsed buildings.
• White tents on a red background are the camps of survivors.
• Rescue teams and NGOs on the ground are using Garmin GPS .
• Hundreds of surfers immediately started a real ant work , designing the city's map using satellite imagery provided by Yahoo and by GeoEye (the company that provides Google Earth) and updated after the earthquake.
• It only took a few hours to members of the free mapping community to respond.

Haïti Crisis Map

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  OpenStreetMap                                                               

  http://haiti.openstreetmap.nl/   Haïti Crisis Map                         

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