The 2011 Where 2.0 conference is wrapping up today in Santa Clara, CA. Over the course of the week, many of the presentations have been streamed live over the conference website. I'm including a few YouTube videos for some of noteworthy presentations. Jack Dangermond - CEO and founder of Esri: "Living Maps - Making Collective Geographic Information a … [Read more...]
NPR Story on Crisis Mapping in Japan
Last week NPR ran a story on crisis mapping in Japan - focusing on the open-source, citizen-driven Sinsai.info website. Here's the description from the NPR website: Open source software called Ushahidi allows people to add and update information to maps that anyone with an Internet connection can access. In Tokyo, a crew of volunteers is using the software to map everything — … [Read more...]
Visualizing Japan crisis map inputs
Here's a new visualization that shows the locations worldwide that are submitting reports to the Ushahidi Japan Crisis Map. Click on the map to see full size image. … [Read more...]
Japanese earthquake – disaster/response maps
Here are some links to maps and map apps related to the Japanese earthquake and tsunami. I'll add more as they are released. From Google - Japan Crisis Response Map and Japan Crisis Response Info Page ESRI Japan Incident map - click here to read a story from Voice of America about crisis mapping that describes how info gets fed into ESRI's Japan Incident map. ESRI … [Read more...]