Destruction in Haiti, Then and Now
The New York Times has created an eye-opening interactive feature using aerial photos from GeoEye and Google Maps to show Port-au-Prince before and after the earthquake in Haiti last January.
Using the application is it is possible to view aerial imagery from both before and after the earthquake. The imagery includes shots of the tent cities that were created after the quake as well as highlighting some of the damaged structures in the city.
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The tragedy of the flooding in Australia seems to just keep getting worse and worse. Flash floods in the Brisbane area have left nine dead and at least 70 missing nearby.
All Things Spatial map of the Australian floods
Arek, of Australian mapping blog All Things Spatial, has written a great post about how the government is often slow to respond to such crisis with GIS projects.
Because governments are often slow to respond community lead projects in the GIS arena are a great solution. For example, ABC has just released the ABC Qld Flood Crisis Map, built on the Ushahidi platform.
ABC Qld Flood Crisis Map
The map is an attempt to crowdsource reports on the Queensland floods and the recovery operations. The Ushahidi platform is especially useful as it can be configured to send SMS alerts to registered users.
Arek also points to the Australian Early Warning Network that republishes Bureau of Meteorology information and sends emergency alerts to mobile phones, home phones, pagers and via SMS or e-mail. The Australian Early Warning Network is maintained by a private company.
Arek has himself produced a Google Map to show the huge extent of the area affected by the flooding.
You can donate to the Flood Relief Appeal here.
Via: All Things Spatial
Food Truck Maps
Google Maps showing the location of food trucks is definitely a growing trend in the USA, especially in LA. The latest application is Food Truck Maps which is tracking 104 food trucks in Los Angeles.
As well as the Google Map showing the location of the food trucks Food Truck Maps also shows the latest tweets from the trucks. You can search the tweets by category and location.
Also See
- Tweat It - Google Map of food vendors in New York
- truXmap - real-time location map of food trucks in Los Angeles
- Bistro Chaser - tracking food trucks in LA
