‘Half a million are stranded by India flood’

September 3, 2008

The International Herald Tribune is running a story on the flooding in Bihar province, India: Half a million victims remain stranded after last week’s floods in northern India destroyed hundreds of rural villages. Aid workers say food and drinkable water are running out in overcrowded camps that house thousands of displaced farmers and their families. Many […]

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Picasa 3.0 (beta) now available for Windows. How about for Macs?

September 2, 2008

I have been a big fan of Picasa for some time and regularly use the Web Albums application to upload photos for sharing.  Picasa is one of the easiest photo management tools to master and, I think, easily outperforms iPhoto.  Picasa 3 (beta) has a slew of new functions that enables users to do all […]

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Bihar flood maps available for overlay in Google Earth

September 2, 2008

UNOSAT has maps of India’s Bihar region available for download.  The recent flooding of the Kosi River has displaced tens of thousands of individuals in both India and Nepal.  Reuters has more here and MSF says it has people on the ground.  Here is BBC coverage of the tragedy: UPDATE #1: Sorry, folks, I got […]

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An update from Burning Man

August 31, 2008

A gentleman by the name of Mark Atwood posted a little ditty which covers both Burning Man, Garmin Rino radios and Inamrsat BGAN units so it kind of counts as an ‘aid related’ post.  In any event, his post is priceless: Finally got the BGAN sat link working The direct US Highway 20 route mixed […]

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Mikel Maron is mapping the West Bank

August 29, 2008

Mikel Maron is doing an incredible job of mapping the West Bank and has detailed his adventures on his blog, BrainOff.  Please head over and read about what Mikel is up to.  Mikel just sold Mapufacture to Fortius One and is an Open Street Map evangelist. Read on… Tweet

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CHF Builds World-Class Vocational Training Center in Aceh

August 29, 2008

The Wall Street Journal’s MarketWatch is reporting that the Cooperative Housing Foundation (CHF) has finished construction on a multi-million dollar Polyteknik Aceh in Banda Aceh, Indonesia with funding from Chevron and USAID. Polyteknik Aceh has 20 classrooms, laboratories and lecturers’ offices, as well as an administration office, auditorium, library, amphitheater, and a spacious, comfortable open […]

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GeoEye signs deal to provide imagery to Google – Reuters

August 29, 2008

Reuters is reporting that GeoEye will soon begin providing high-resolution imagery to Google for Google Maps and Google Earth.  Here are some highlights from the article: WASHINGTON (Reuters) – GeoEye Inc on Thursday said it will provide imagery from its new $502 million high-resolution GeoEye-1 satellite to Google Earth and Google Maps after the spacecraft […]

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Fire Eagle Mobile Updater

August 27, 2008

If you are currently making all your calls on a Nokia N95 (or any Java-enabled phone with GPS and JSR-179) and want to be able to update Fire Eagle then the Fire Eagle Mobile Updater is for you.  You can download it here or head over to the Fire Eagle Application Gallery and see what […]

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Find your way around Burning Man

August 27, 2008

[WARNING: Again, absolutely nothing to do with aid work, other than comic relief, and some cool map stuff.] I should have never started with the whole Burning Man thing.  Now that I have Brady Forrest over at O’Reilly Radar has quickly trumped me with his write-up on Flickr‘s Burning Man Open Street Map project.  You […]

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Burning Man

August 26, 2008

[WARNING: This has absolutely nothing to do with aid work.] Folks, it is that time again.  The migration to NW Nevada will soon begin and for weeks afterwards we will have watch all the dust covered cars roam the Bay Area as they make their statement that they too became one. Before you head out […]

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