While the Nuclear crisis following the Sendai Earthquake and Tsunami is still capturing everyone attention, I wanted to recall the Libya and Ivory Coast conflits and praise the effort of the civil community to try to help by creating free and open-source maps of these areas.
The Standby Task Force is an Online Volunteer Community for Live Mapping. This initiative is linked to Crisis Mappers (http://www.crisismappers.net/) who usually setup Ushaidi Maps (http://blog.ushahidi.com/) for major humanitarian crisis. If you would like to participate in the effort to help, you should consider visiting the blog of the StandBy Task Force (http://blog.standbytaskforce.com/) as well as the one from HOT, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (http://hot.openstreetmap.org/weblog/).
Here are the starting points to help creating useful and open-source maps :
The Standby Task Force is an Online Volunteer Community for Live Mapping. This initiative is linked to Crisis Mappers (http://www.crisismappers.net/) who usually setup Ushaidi Maps (http://blog.ushahidi.com/) for major humanitarian crisis. If you would like to participate in the effort to help, you should consider visiting the blog of the StandBy Task Force (http://blog.standbytaskforce.com/) as well as the one from HOT, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (http://hot.openstreetmap.org/weblog/).
Here are the starting points to help creating useful and open-source maps :
Japan :
http://www.sinsai.info/ushahidi/ (in Japanese)
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/2011_Sendai_earthquake_and_tsunami
Libya :
http://libyacrisismap.net/
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Libya
Ivory Coast :
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Ivory_Coast
