Best crowdsourcing for the Typhoon
After a morning of searching, I see the the google crisis map as a good solution; there are many other crowdsourced maps that have popped up in the last week. Relief workers should have staff monitoring these for relevant entries to their area of concern. The google crisis map allows you to upload data or datasets by using a q uestionnaire available here . This is organized in Google's Crisis Response group. There is also a Typhoon Yolanda people finder that is very useful. The Philippines government crowdsourcing data and GIS data http://disaster.dswd.gov.ph/maps.php The Philippines government crowdsourced GIS data server http://disaster.dswd.gov.ph/maps.php The Google site obtains much of its data from ESRI here: http://fema-services2.esri.com/arcgis/rest/services/2013_Cyclone_Haiyan/Cyclone_Haiyan_Impact/MapServer/ The ESRI hosted crowdsourcing map http://giscorps.maps.arcgis.com/apps/OnePane/basicviewer/index.html?appid=cf6031322a334cc3bfe3f9a74f23b384 The o