I recently received the following messages and was curious if anyone knew of any applications out there that used OSM (still waiting to get OSM's mediawiki extension on Wikia). Suggestions?
"I work for the a local County Civil Defense Agency. We have an interest in establishing a "Disaster Wiki" that would allow us to take in information from the community when a disaster strikes. Our interest stems from an article in Emergency Management magazine, which describes how a wiki could be used to gather information. The basic thought is that after a disaster, people could go to a pre-established wiki and fill out a simple online form, geo-code the location of the damage, add a picture and have that information populate a map. We could display the map on our monitors in the Emergency Operations Center and help identify which areas of the island were hardest hit by the event. I was initially steered toward a site called ushahidi.com, but we would have to load the software on a County Server and we currently do not have the server capacity to handle the additional traffic. Our desired solution would be to have the wiki hosted offsite. I was wondering if you might have any suggestions. Thanks for any help you can offer."
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