How open data and tools can save lives during a disaster | Opensource.com

peter.suber's bookmarks 2019-02-24

Summary:

"If you've lived through a major, natural disaster, you know that during the first few days you'll probably have to rely on a mental map, instead of using a smartphone as an extension of your brain. Where's the closest hospital with disaster care? What about shelters? Gas stations? And how many soft story buildings—with their propensity to collapse—will you have to zig-zag around to get there?

Trying to answer these questions after moving back to earthquake-prone San Francisco is why I started the Resiliency Maps project. The idea is to store information about assets, resources, and hazards in a given geographical area in a map that you can download and print out. The project contributes to and is powered by OpenStreetMap (OSM), and the project's entire toolkit is open source, ensuring that the maps will be available to anyone who wants to use them...."

Link:

https://opensource.com/article/19/2/resiliency-maps

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Tags:

oa.new oa.data oa.humanitarian oa.geo oa.floss

Date tagged:

02/24/2019, 15:19

Date published:

02/24/2019, 10:19