Track all your hurricanes simultaneously in Google Earth

September 5, 2008

Google’s Lat Long Blog has posted a write-up on the Google Earth/Maps team’s efforts to make it easier for you to track hurricanes in Google Earth.  This is more information in the pocket of Frank Taylor over at Google Earth Blog who created his own layer and who is scrambling to get his new boat […]

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Sorrow and hunger overwhelm Haitian storm shelter – Reuters

September 5, 2008

Reuters AlertNet has an update on the aftermath of Tropical Storm Hannah that hit Haiti on Tuesday, Sept 2.  MSF is on the ground.  Anyone else?  Please let us know. Read on… Tweet

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Update on tragic humanitarian airlines crash in DRC

September 5, 2008

AirServ has an update on recovery efforts in the DRC of one of their airplanes that crashed Monday, Sept 1 outside of Bukavu: Air Serv International and the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC) are coordinating efforts to recover the passengers on board the aircraft which went down in the […]

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Stormpulse

September 5, 2008

TechCrunch has a write-up on an extremely cool weather tracking service called Stormpulse.  This is easily one of the best weather tracking apps I have ever seen.  From the post: Wonder where Hurricane Ike will hit or when Tropical Storm Hanna will pass? Hurricane season has lots of people glued to the Weather Channel to […]

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New data for Georgia in Google Earth

September 5, 2008

Our heart felt thanks go out to the folks in Mountain View.  Dave Barth posted yesterday over at Google Lat Long Blog to let us know that new data is now available for Georgia.  The was a minor brouhaha a few weeks back when it was noticed that there was no data for Georgia.  Dave […]

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MSF in Bihar and KMZ file of flooding

September 5, 2008

MSF has reached the flood affected regions in Bihar state and reports back from the frontlines: An emergency relief team from the humanitarian aid agency, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) has reached the areas worst affected by the flooding in Bihar State, India. The team, including a logistician, a water-sanitation engineer and a medical doctor, are […]

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‘DRC plane crash: UN confirms death toll’

September 4, 2008

South Africa’s IOL News has a story about a tragic plane crash in the DRC which claimed the lives of all 17 people onboard.  The flight was operated by AirServ.org which we highlighted a few weeks back.  Members of the UNDP, OCHA, MSF, Handicap International and the DRC parliament were onboard when the plane crashed […]

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‘Google Earth – How They Do It!’

September 4, 2008

PopPhoto.com has an article on how DigitalGlobe goes about collecting imagery for Google Earth.  From the story: When you launch GoogleEarth on your computer, you start in outer space and you miraculously zoom in. You might see two unsuspecting guys walking across the Blue Wonder Bridge way off in Dresden, Germany. But the folks at […]

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‘Alternative to Google Earth proposed at digital mapping conference’

September 4, 2008

I have been sitting on this one for a while I try to figure out if it dovetails with what I’ve been thinking about the need for a open source geobrowser which, most importantly, does not come loaded with imagery.  (Yeah, it’s that bandwidth issue again.) The Industry Standard has a write-up on Ron Lake’s […]

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U.S. to announce over $1 billion in aid for Georgia – Reuters

September 3, 2008

Reuters is running a story that says the US will provide over $1 billion in aid for Georgia.  From the article: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Bush administration will announce on Wednesday an aid package of more than $1 billion to help Georgia rebuild after its war with Russia over the separatist enclave of South Ossetia […]

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