[Geodata] Haiti Response

[Jonathan Gray]

FYI we've blogged about this here:

  http://blog.okfn.org/2010/01/15/open-street-map-community-responds-to-haiti-crisis/

-- 
Jonathan Gray

Community Coordinator
The Open Knowledge Foundation
http://www.okfn.org

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On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Schuyler Erle <schuyler at nocat.net> wrote:
> * On 14-Jan-2010 at 11:41AM EST, David William Bitner said:
>>
>> As you all are all aware there is a large international response to the
>> Earthquake in Haiti right now.  One of the more difficult tasks at hand is
>> to aggregate all the incredible work that is being done by NGOs,
>> Governments, Companies, and Individuals. Of particular interest to myself
>> and the work that I am doing to support the Sahana Software Foundation's (
>> http://wiki.sahana.lk/doku.php/haiti:start) efforts is making sure we have a
>> good catalog of the Web Services that are being put out there right now.
>
> We've set up a version of Tim Waters's map warper at the NYPL:
>
>  http://maps.nypl.org/relief/
>
> The service mostly has NGA maps downloaded from the U. Texas
> map library, but there's a warped version of the latest GeoEye imagery
> over Port-au-Prince in there as well, served out over WMS:
>
> http://maps.nypl.org/relief/maps/wms/32?request=GetCapabilities&version=1.1.1
>
> And over (Google-style, e.g. OSM-compatible) TMS:
>
>  http://maps.nypl.org/tilecache/1/haiti/$z/$x/$y.jpg
>
> If you have maps or imagery (warped or unwarped), let us know and
> we'll be happy to host it.
>
> SDE
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