New social media mapping sites are popping up all over the place these days - whether it's crisis-mapping sites like Sinsai.info or this new 'happiness' map from PhD student Alex Davies. Davies, a PhD student at the University of Cambridge's Computational and Biological Learning Lab, created a statistical model to analyze the sentiment (happy or sad) of Tweets from around … [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...]
NOAA visualizations of Japanese earthquake and tsunami
Below is a tsunami wave height model that shows the Pacific-wide impact of the event. The model was created by the NOAA Environmental Visualization Lab: Description from NOAA: Model runs from the Center for Tsunami Research at the NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory show the expected wave heights of the tsunami as it travels across the Pacific basin. The … [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...]