Tufts students last semester successfully used crisis mapping to aid rescue and relief efforts in the wake of the Haiti earthquake in January. This semester, crisis mapping makes its return to the ...

Oct. 6, 2010, 1:46 PM UTC / Source: GlobeNewswire REDLANDS, Calif., Oct. 6, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Esri today announced a partnership with Ushahidi that will improve the collection and use of ...

I was recently asked this question by a colleague. I didn’t have a full answer at the ready, so I thought about it some more. Crisis mapping is usually conducted with the aim of producing “maps” that ...

A series of violent storms put Aaron Titus, disaster coordinator for the New Jersey branch of Mormon Helping Hands, through his paces last summer. He coordinated the dispatching of several hundred ...

Imagine your hometown hit by a 7.0 magnitude earthquake. As survivors flock to Twitter and Facebook to tell their stories, crisis mappers, who have never set foot in the area, can use this information ...

Crisis Mapping has been an inspiring example of community-led open innovation applied to big problems. Leveraging both technology and crowd sourcing, passionate participants have been able to provide ...

Coast Guard Academy Cadet First Class Evan Twarog is presented with the Coast Guard Achievement Medal at the Academy by Capt. Jay Vann, Academy Asst. Superintendent, Sept. 11, 2018. (Photo courtesy of ...

This post is part of an ambitious project to crowd-source the January issue of Forbes Magazine. Click here to submit your own ideas for “Names You Need to Know in 2011.” The best will run in the ...

Patrick Meier pioneered the field of crisis mapping during the 2010 Haiti earthquake, compiling information to create a real time map of damage. Now he's focusing on humanitarian uses of drones. When ...

Crisis mapping, the real time mapping of political, social and environmental crises, is one of those disciplines that we could only dream about 30 or 40 years ago. The development over the course of ...

When disaster strikes, chaos can ensue. Even on social media, where hundreds of thousands of tweets, Facebook posts, and Instagrams can overwhelm human capacity to get a clear picture of who needs ...