Online mapping helps Haiti relief efforts (PRI's The World)

[Posted January 25, 2010 by jake]

OpenStreetMap (OSM) played a prominent role in assisting Haiti relief efforts by getting historical map data into OSM and making it available to relief workers. "Crisis response teams and aid groups are now downloading OSM's Haiti map onto their GPS units. There's even a specially designed iphone app for OSM's Haiti map. Another group using OSM's Haiti map is Ushahidi. That's a site that collects web, email and text message reports from Haiti. Those reports are then embedded in an interactive version of OSM's map on Ushahidi's website." Seen on Michael Tiemann's blog.

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