Community Geospatial Links to Haiti – Updated
January 13, 2010 16 Comments
USGS Shake Map for Haiti
Update Monday Jan 18th: Another update in an attempt to keep the links valid.
Update Friday Jan 15th: The team has gone back and updated some of the mapping links so check them out at the bottom of this post. Dead links have been removed and new ones added. Keep in mind much of this is fluid so sorry if the links don’t work when you try them out.
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On Tuesday, January 12 a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck about 10 miles southwest of the capital of Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The earthquake was the worst in the region in more than 200 years. With many poor residents living in tin-roof shacks that sit precariously on steep ravines and with much of the construction in Port-au-Prince and elsewhere in the country of questionable quality, the expectation was that the quake caused major damage to buildings and significant loss of life, according to The New York Times.
Many companies are using this disaster to showcase their products and I think we need to try and share this open data outside of these silos. Content below is organized by section:
- Quick facts about Haiti
- Haiti – Related Links
- US Government
- Non-Profit, Non-Governmental Organizations
- New Media – Social Networking Sites
- GIS – Data – Maps – Geospatial Information – GeoRSS
- GIS Volunteers & Humanitarian Volunteer Sites
