Booklet to explain to governments, decision makers and disaster professionals the potential uses of geoinformation technologies for reducing disaster risks and losses, based on the knowledge and experience of experts in these fields.
Brief overview and exttensive bibliography on the application of participatory mapping to hazard identification and risk mapping.
NGO helping to provide specialist maps to humanitarian agencies and increasingly to affected communities. They slo provide support to communities in poverty mapping as a capacity building exercise.
A UN University supported program "to forge interaction amongst universities in Africa with interest in teaching on disaster risk reduction, through information sharing, capacity building and collaborative research".
Website using Google Maps to show estimated flooding depths in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
A site that "takes housing postings from all over the web, and puts them together for your easy access". Includes a map-based search.
Listing of shelter locations across U.S. for Hurricane Katrina victims. Site include maps of available shelters and updated status information.
Blog post outlining how "the recent floods in Mumbai provoked a crisis in government geospatial data distribution in India".
