Crisis mapping brings online tool to Haitian disaster relief effort

From the article: "Taken individually, these bits of data might not be terribly useful. The goal is that by aggregating the incidents in a visual format, people and organizations using the site will be able to see patterns of destruction, to determine where services should be concentrated. A red dot on the map, for example, signifies that looting is happening near a town called Pétionville; another shows that Hotel Villa Creole has become a site of medical triage."

Here is the link to Ushahidi's Haiti site: http://haiti.ushahidi.com/. You can browse by category: emergencies (subcategories include collapsed structures, people trapped, contaminated water supplies, and medical emergencies), threats (includes pillaging), logistical lines (includes blocked roads and power outages), responses (includes health services, shelter, food distribution, and water sanitation), and search for deaths and missing persons.

Short video from the Ushahidi website:

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