Simon Willison’s Weblog

On walking into a disaster zone. Schuyler Erle: “The World Bank was looking for technical GIS professionals, ideally French-speaking, to go and advise the government [...] I can sort of speak French. Sure, why not?”

# 10th February 2010, 3:45 pm / gis, haiti, openstreetmap, schuylererle, worldbank

OSM the default map in Haiti. A search and rescue team member in Haiti sends word that digital maps constructed by the OpenStreetMap community are spreading by word of mouth and being loaded on to GPS units on the ground.

# 25th January 2010, 9:26 pm / gps, haiti, inspiring, mapping, openstreetmap