Task Force: Haiti Earthquake

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Permalink Reply by Talbot Brooks on January 14, 2010 at 11:57pm

A 1:6,000 scale geopdf atlas is complete and available from http://mississippi.deltastate.edu/data/Haiti/Map_Products/Port-au-P... for download and local use for official purposes. We provide no warranties or guarantees and wish to thank all who have put in efforts at openstreetmap.org for the work on the roads layer and those at USGS Emergency Ops (thanks Brenda!!!) and GeoEye for providing the imagery. Please do not attempt to open this document from the web - please download and then open locally as our server is easily overwhelmed. This product may not be altered or resold.

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Permalink Reply by Martin Dirksen-Fischer on January 16, 2010 at 2:53am

Hello,
The link mentioned above does not work. Just use:
http://mississippi.deltastate.edu/
Yours- and good luck to everyone!

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Permalink Reply by Iván Sánchez Ortega on January 15, 2010 at 11:59am

Hi, this is Iván from the OpenStreetMap Foundation.

We're making vector maps for the area, but the volunteers depend on hi-res imagery.

We currently need hi-res aerial imagery for *outside* port-au-prince, preferably in a WMS server.


Please leave a note on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti#Discussions , or contact us via the "talk" mailing list or the #osm IRC channel: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contact

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Permalink Reply by Gabriel Coch on January 16, 2010 at 12:29pm

Google Fusion tables is a great way to collaborate and visualize info (table,map, chart) and can handle thousands of points. I'd be glad to help setting up a table, but don't have access to any GPS points yet. If anyone does, let's assemble a table that anyone/everyone can have access to for reading/editing.

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Permalink Reply by James Wilson on January 16, 2010 at 8:04pm

Our team was aware / activated after receiving notification from GDACS (on 1/12/2010 at 10:19:57 PM UTC). Multiple ground partners on-site and reporting. Detailed report to follow.

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Permalink Reply by Lynn Lawry MD, MSPH, MSc on January 17, 2010 at 10:36am

Anyone mapped the spontaneous internally displaced camps? I think current count is 14. Would be good to see paths to them as it determines distribution lanes etc...

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Permalink Reply by Linda Lewis on January 20, 2010 at 11:47pm

I have been collecting links to disaster related maps on my website here. One of them is a DisasterCharter link to a map of spontaneous gathering centers.

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Permalink Reply by James Wilson on January 17, 2010 at 2:53pm

Hi Folks,
Link to our biosurveillance operational posture-
http://biosurveillance.typepad.com/biosurveillance/2010/01/haiti-op...
Cheers,
Jim Wilson, MD

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Permalink Reply by Linda Lewis on January 20, 2010 at 11:57pm

It may be helpful to the emergency responders, who have their hands full currently with food, water and medical care, to look at possibilities for shelter. They will need to know where there are large, relatively flat areas for setting up camps, and the potential capacity of each.

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Permalink Reply by Talbot Brooks on January 21, 2010 at 1:23am

Linda -
We've included contours in the 1:25,000 atlas set provided at:
http://edcftp.cr.usgs.gov/pub/data/disaster/201001_Earthquake_Haiti...

If you like - e-mail me at tbrooks@deltastate.edu - we can do a slope analysis of the ASTER 30-m DEM and identify locations with slopes less than 2 or 3%.

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Permalink Reply by Rebecca Harned on January 21, 2010 at 5:43pm

Some additional Haiti resources with mapping have merged over the past few days. Google and ESRI are offering assistance in different ways.

Here is some information from ESRI: Haiti basemap data from United Nations available on ArcGIS Online. In addition, ESRI-generated earthquake and recovery maps are available for both the media and public. ESRI will provide updates as they become available. More resources are outlined here - http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/esri-assists-haiti-earthqua...

Google is offering assistance and information with post-earthquake satellite images and is is encouraging users with ground knowledge to update the map of Haiti with disaster response data. http://www.google.com/mapmaker

Also - the Emergency Management blog on GIS is a good source for new information at is become available. http://www.emergencymgmt.com/emergency-blogs/gis

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Permalink Reply by Linda Lewis on January 25, 2010 at 12:43pm

In the news:

"Aid organizations say they are collecting tents, but few so far are in evidence. And the International Organization for Migration, an intergovernmental agency, says it could take experts weeks to search out suitable sites for enough tent cities to hold earthquake refugees." Sounds like an opportunity for someone to help using GIS.

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