In case anyone missed reading about it, there was a 7.1 magnitude earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand at the weekend. Miraculously no-one was killed, despite widespread damage. This was due mainly to the fact that it happened in the early morning, so people were asleep in their homes. If they had been walking or driving through the city when it happened I am sure there would have been many injuries and deaths (and more news coverage).
Anyway, a helpful individual has made this: http://www.mapquake.co.nz/ And someone from ESRI (I think) in NZ has made this: http://s1.demos.eaglegis.co.nz/Flex/earthquake-christchurch I cannot find anything based on OSM, although I am not suggesting that someone should do this, since it seems that is already covered. It's interesting, however, to see the UIs that are being used, and also how willing the general public is to contribute useful information to such a site. My questions are, is someone or some group using OSM as the data source for similar public information services? Are there tools for people to make such webpages easily using OSM? Is OSM ready for this? I apologise if this topic has been discussed in depth elsewhere. Best wishes, Andrew _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
