The OpenStreetMap community is very active in the Philippines. They've particularly stepped up in the typhoon disasters. OSM is being used by MapAction in maps for disaster responders.
http://brainoff.com/weblog/2009/10/08/1495
I'm certain OSM Phi…
Hacking OpenStreetMap, Paper, and SMS for Crisis
"An extraordinary week at the Camp Roberts experiments. Simply .. the Open approach to disaster response is becoming a reality."
http://brainoff.com/weblog/2009/08/
All speakers selected to give an Ignite Talk at ICCM 2009 should upload their presentations below no later than 5pm EST on Monday, October 12th. This is a firm deadline. Extra spots will be given away after this time.
Mikel Maron
Open Works: A Report from the Camp Roberts exercises
OpenStreetMap, Google, Sahana, Development Seed, Geocommons, and others participated in the Camp Roberts exercise this August. With a policy of Open- standards, source, data, and polic…
Founder of Mapufacture (now GeoCommons), and web developer for hire, specializing in Open Geospatial and Wiki tech. He’s been active in the standardization of GeoRSS and in the OpenStreetMap collaborative mapping project, and several open source projects. He’s developed two of the first Wikis in use at the UN. Previously, Mikel worked as senior developer of My Yahoo! and researched evolutionary models of ecosystems for an MSc at the University of Sussex.
Project(s)
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
Free Map Palestine initiative (complete open map of Palestine)
Free Map India
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I just saw the video Patrick put up--very impressive. Have you seen Depiction mapping/simulation software? It makes heavy use of OSM data, and is becoming widely used by both local agencies and volunteers for disaster preparedness/response/relief. I think it's something you'd be interested in: www.depiction.com