Blog post outlining possibility for developing a web-based mapping system to serve as a clearinghouse for offers of housing and ridesharing for hurricane victims. Also includes some ideas for addressing trust issues.
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.
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.
Community data center hosted by Nonprofit Knowledge Works. Good maps of background data about New Orleans.
Listing of shelter locations across U.S. for Hurricane Katrina victims. Site include maps of available shelters and updated status information.
A site that "takes housing postings from all over the web, and puts them together for your easy access". Includes a map-based search.
The NY Times has an interesting map of New Orleans, with information about flooding levels, income, race, elevation, and points of interest.
Website using Google Maps to show estimated flooding depths in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Blog post outlining how "the recent floods in Mumbai provoked a crisis in government geospatial data distribution in India".
Brief overview and exttensive bibliography on the application of participatory mapping to hazard identification and risk mapping.
