Crowdsourcing for natural hazards and emergency management

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Crowdsourcing for natural hazards and emergency management #17

Open mbjones opened 9 years ago

mbjones commented 9 years ago

Organizational Page: CrwdSrc4EM Category: Discussion Title: Crowdsourcing for natural hazards and emergency management Proposed by: Sophia Liu Participants: Summary:

I am working on a crowdsourcing project called "iCoast - Did the Coast Change?" and would like some collaborative help to expand the application. Check it out at: http://icoast.us

jczaplew commented 9 years ago

This reminds me of a collaborative project between the Wisconsin Sea Grant Institute and the Association of State Flood Plain Managers (ASFPM) to visual shoreline changes around the Great Lakes - http://floodatlas.org/wcmp/obliqueviewer/, combined with the Flood Photo Viewer from ASFPM - http://floodatlas.org/floodview/#

There definitely seems to be a lot of parties interested in this type of emergency management crowdsourcing application, and it would be neat to create a modular platform for such a thing.

wclenhardt commented 9 years ago

Crowd-source efforts to map roads and infrastructure could be linked in. These efforts have been used in the wake of natural disasters to help with near real-time updates for disaster management, e.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/