[Geowanking] hurricane apps

[Josh@oklieb]

Discussions on radio here today are making clear that the mantra of  
homeland security and the turf wars over the DHS consolidation have  
crippled FEMA's effectiveness for actual on-the-ground emergency  
management. There are certainly those in the US government who have  
seen that information and capabilities such as below would be  
important - they have just been sidelined in recent years.

Josh

On Sep 2, 2005, at 10:33 AM, michael gould wrote:

> It’s a shame that the simple and useful apps which are developed  
> and mentioned here, in general do not make it into use. While at  
> the same time large govt orgs dump millions into dinosaur apps  
> which in the time of need (er, now) don’t seem to be helping much  
> in the way of response coordination.
>
>
> How to bridge the gap between what is acceptable for large-scale  
> funding vs. what is simple and useful on the ground?  (minimum  
> working architectures…)
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mike
>
>
> p.s.- anyone out there with contacts at US govt offices, please  
> make (another) phone call and plead that they get moving…the  
> situation we see on CNN is as sad as it is embarassing.
>
> Maybe try to convince those govt contacts that the people in  
> newOrleans are evil-doers: maybe that will get things moving.
>
>
>
> Message: 1
>
> Date: Thu, 01 Sep 2005 14:18:12 -0400
>
> From: "B.K. DeLong" <bkdelong at pobox.com>
>
> Subject: [Geowanking] Google Mapping/Earthing Hurricane Housing
>
> To: geowanking at lists.burri.to
>
> Message-ID: <6.2.3.4.2.20050901141555.04d7b8b0 at mail.brain-stream.com>
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
>
>
> http://www.livejournal.com/users/bkdelong/128218.html
>
>
> Are my notes to this list to basic? Do people want to be pushing the
>
> envelope more? How would I....or how would you...take the data from
>
> hurricanehousing.org and get it on Google Maps or a Google Earth
>
> overlay? Should MoveOn.org publish the data in a CSV to make it
>
> easier for folks like us to map-foo it?
>
>
> Imagine if people could take this service and compare the location
>
> between a potential place to stay and another location of their
>
> company or place that has free Internet access or near relatives who
>
> may not have a bit of floor space for them?
>
>
> Thoughts?
>
>
> --
>
> B.K. DeLong
>
> bkdelong at pobox.com
>
> +1.617.797.2472
>
>
> -----------
>
> Michael Gould
>
> Department of Information Systems (LSI)
>
> Universitat Jaume I, 12071 Castellón Spain
>
> E-mail: gould (at) lsi.uji.es
>
> http://www.mgould.com
>
> http://www.geoinfo.uji.es
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Geowanking mailing list
> Geowanking at lists.burri.to
> http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://geowanking.org/pipermail/geowanking_geowanking.org/attachments/20050902/f009c85e/attachment-0003.html>