Happy #GISDay from Kenya

Team - 

Today is GIS Day around the world and it has been a very busy year. I am here at ICCM 2013 and learning a lot about what everyone is doing in the CrisisMapping community. 

Most recently the Philippine typhoon and MidWest tornadoes have GIS specialists across the globe working in conjunct with the CrisisMapping community to support response agencies. 

Here are some examples of maps being produced for the Philippines response: 

• GISCorps Philippines Typhoon Online Maps  
• MapAction Map Gallery
• Digital Humanitarian Network Map Gallery

I'd like to recognize the great work of the GISCorps and MapAction this year and look forward to the building bridge we have built between the SAR and GIS professional community.

Tropical Storm #Haiyan / #YolandaPH map resources

View Larger Map of tweets validated through the MicroMapper platform and mapped by GISCorps. For more maps and apps click through the gallery below. 

As Tropical Storm Haiyan / Yolanda makes it way into mainland Asia, the relief efforts are fully underway in the Philippines. I wanted to take a moment here and point out some maps and resources that may be of interest to the Search and Rescue community. 

• The Digitial Humanitarian Network website
• GISCorps Online Maps website
• iRevolution / MicroMappers blog
• Humanitarian Open Streetmap website
• MapAction Map Gallery
• FEMA GeoPortal 

The CrisisMapping community is serving the United Nations OCHA and UNDAC Teams with up to date information from a wide variety of sources to provide situational awareness and up to date base data for their maps. Check out these sites and the maps below for more information. We will learn a lot from this event and please keep the Search and Rescue and other teams in mind as they are currently engaged in life saving operations.

Here is a partial list of data sources: 

·        Schools and Hospitals (OSM)

·        Urgent Need Tweets (GISCorps as of Nov. 10th PM)

·        Hot Spot Analysis on Urgent Need Tweets (GISCorps)

·        Maximum Storm Surge (NOAH)

·        Admin Boundaries

·        Storm Signal (Geodata Systems, Inc)

·        Post-event imagery (Astrium / Pleiades, Nov 11th)

·        Cloud cover (NASA, Nov. 9th)

·        Damage assessment layers (USG / NGA)

·        Damage assessment layers (Copernicus / UNOSAT)

·        Active Hurricanes (NOAA / NHC / CPHC/ JTWC)

·        Weather Stations (NOAA)

·        Recent Hurricanes (NOAA / NHC / JTWC)

·        Recent earthquake (USGS)

·        Evacuation Centers and Command Post (KML)

·        OpenStreetMap