Nordic Geospatial Blog –


August 27, 2011

Resources – Hurricane #Irene for East Coast, NYC, DC. etc.

The New York City Office of Emergency Management has released a Crowdmap with the help of the Ushahidi team:

http://nycsevereweather.crowdmap.com

http://www.nyc.gov/html/oem/html/nycsevereweather/weather_home.shtml

To submit a formal service request to NYC, use 311. For emergency assistance, call 911. For more information about how the City is responding to the storm, visit:
http://www.nyc.gov/severeweather

Via Direct Relief International -
https://maps.directrelief.org/USA/hpp/index.html

Information links:
National Weather Service http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/
New York City hurricane evacuation zone maps http://www.nyc.gov/html/oem/html/get_prepared/prepared_partnerstoolkit.shtml
US Chamber Business and Civic Leadership Center (BCLC) Help Desk https://www.facebook.com/pages/Disaster-Help-Desk-US-Chamber-BCLC/256578991038630
Red Cross live open shelter information at http://app.redcross.org/nss-app/.

Available as an app for the iphone/ipad/ipod at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/american-red-cross-shelter/id419258261?mt=8

State and local government links:

New York City OEM http://www.nyc.gov/html/oem/html/home/home.shtml
North Carolina Division of Emergency Management http://www.nccrimecontrol.org/index2.cfm?a=000003,000010,002050,002063
Virginia Dept. of Emergency Management http://www.vaemergency.com/
Maryland Emergency Management Agency http://www.mema.state.md.us/MEMA2/index.html
New Jersey OEM http://www.ready.nj.gov/
New York State OEM http://www.dhses.ny.gov/

Info4Disasters.org launched it’s new website this past week. A virtual EOC for Hurricane Irene was created last night for sharing information with the public & colleagues.

http://info4disasters.org/hurricane-eoc/irene/

Ushahidi instance

http://irene.tethr.org

Google Earth Outreach http://earth.google.com/outreach
Google Crisis Response, Google.org http://www.google.org

USNG GeoPDF download Flex viewer up and running at

http://greatriver.deltastate.edu/IreneUSNG/index.html

access the download folder at
http://mississippi.deltastate.edu/data/USNG_Atlases

http://www.wunderground.com/hurricane/surge_images.asp

Army Corps of Engineers Districts have done Hurricane Storm Surge data/maps for their Districts.
Examples are:

http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/nhp/HES/WashingtonDCandNOVA/Current2009StormSurgeMapping/Report/DC&NOVA-StormSurgeMap-Main.pdf

http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/nhp/HES/MD/MarylandWesternShore/Current2006HES/PDFsofInundationMaps/Anne_Arundel_County-StormSurgeMap.pdf

July 11, 2010

Government – Calif. State Real Politik and Fed Web 2.0

California State government real politik… sobering…

http://www.mercurynews.com/politics-government/ci_15452125

Federal Gov’t 2.0

http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=45605

http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/07/gov-20-week-in-review-summer-h.html

US DHS FEMA Disaster Assistance Widget

US State Dept Social Media Policy

US OMB Reforming the Federal Govt Efforts to Manage IT Projects