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Republic of the Philippines - DSWD Disaster Mitigation and Response Situation Map

Sun, 2013-11-10 12:00 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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CLICK HERE - GIS Corps - URISA - Philippines Typhoon Online Maps

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GIS Corps - URISA - Philippines Typhoon Online Maps

Sun, 2013-11-10 11:00 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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This is a map of Tweets by category.

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The following crisis maps are powered by MicroMappers, and developed by ESRI and GISCorps volunteers. The request for volunteers is made by the UNOCHA to DHNetwork. GISCorps is a member of DHNetwork.

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The Most Efficient Health Care Systems In The World

Thu, 2013-10-31 13:14 — gl

Huffington Post - Kavitha A. Davidson - August 29, 2013

As supporters and opponents of the Affordable Care Act debate the best way to overhaul a clearly broken health care system, it's perhaps helpful to put American medicine in a global perspective.

The infographic below is based on a recent Bloomberg ranking of the most efficient countries for health care, and highlights enormous gap between the soaring cost of treatment in the U.S. and its quality and effectiveness.

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40 Maps That Will Help You Make Sense of the World

Thu, 2013-08-22 13:19 — Kathy Gilbeaux

1. Where Google Street View is Available - Map by Google

submitted by Albert Gomez

twistedsifter.com - August 13, 2013

If you’re a visual learner like myself, then you know maps, charts and infographics can really help bring data and information to life. Maps can make a point resonate with readers and this collection aims to do just that.

Hopefully some of these maps will surprise you and you’ll learn something new.

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Geospatial Data Release Calendar

Thu, 2013-06-06 03:21 — mdmcdonald

Mike, Alexander,

Good to meet you both today (and help eat the food).

The official data release calendar id here:
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/hub/release-calendar/index.html
<http://www.statistics.gov.uk/hub/release-calendar/index.html>

Also attached is the National Risk Register of Civil Emergencies for the UK.
Enjoy.

Regards, Allan.

Professor Allan J. Brimicombe MPhil PhD CGeog FRGS FGS AcSS
Head, Centre for Geo-Information Studies
University of East London

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Crisis maps

Thu, 2013-05-09 22:57 — Maeryn Obley

voices.mckinseyonsociety.com - Patrick Meier

Crisis-mapping technology has emerged in the past five years as a tool to help humanitarian organizations deliver assistance to victims of civil conflicts and natural disasters. Crisis-mapping platforms display eyewitness reports submitted via e-mail, text message, and social media. The reports are then plotted on interactive maps, creating a geospatial record of events in real time.

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UN - World Food Programme - Hunger Map

Sun, 2013-03-31 15:49 — Kathy Gilbeaux

The map shows the prevalence of undernourishment in the total population as of 2010 - 2012. The indicator is an estimate of the percentage of the population having access to an amount of energy from food insufficient to maintain a healthy life.

http://www.wfp.org/hunger/downloadmap

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Crisis Mapping Syria: Automated Data Mining and Crowdsourced Human Intelligence

Fri, 2013-03-01 17:53 — Kathy Gilbeaux

blog.ushahidi.com

The Syria Tracker Crisis Map is without doubt one of the most impressive crisis mapping projects yet.

On the data-mining side, Syria Tracker has repurposed the HealthMap platform, which mines thousands of online sources for the purposes of disease detection and then maps the results, “giving public-health officials an easy way to monitor local disease conditions.”

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