On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:19 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > http://geosquan.blogspot.com/2010/01/haitian-earthquake-emphasizes-danger-of.html including: "For example, I watched Google, DigitalGlobe, and GeoEye all work together to get stunning imagery collected, processed, and published FREE to the international community to help a wide array of aid workers and first responders within 24 hours. I watched the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency, the US State Department, and other government agencies get critical and informative data and applications out the door and into the hands of people that needed them within mere hours of the disaster - a far improvement from the Katrina days!"
Now, wouldn't it have been much better if this highly commendable public good action had been resolved and taken place *before* the disaster struck so that first responders and people who needed it knew it was there, knew where it was, knew its extent, limitations and reliability, and did not have to work out what they could or could not do with it valuable hours after the event? this is not to denigrate the actions, only to point out we can do even better in making information and data available. jim -- _________________ Jim Croft ~ [email protected] ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft 'A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.' - Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963) _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
