Using data from GIST and tools from GDAL to create colorful shaded maps
Elevation data is crucial when mapping places like Afghanistan and Pakistan, given the mountainous terrain. The [GIST][4] project provides elevation data of the countries from the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (STRM) in rasterized GeoTiff format...
Using Amazon Web Services to Render Map Tiles with Specialized Data
When you’re keeping tabs on an event like the upcoming election in Afghanistan, a basic street map that plots news stories is quite useful. But what could you do with a map that plots those news stories over voting regions that are shaded by...
This weekend CrisisCamp is coming to Washington, DC to advance the conversation around how technology can be best used to improve how we respond to disasters and other humanitarian crises.
Eric, Robert, and Tom will be there from Development Seed...
New Data Focuses on Congo DRC, Tanzania, Sudan, Kenya, Burundi, and Rwanda
We just finished uploading 141,107.17 miles (67 MB) of road data for Congo, DRC, Tanzania, Sudan, Kenya, Burundi, and Rwanda from FAO’s Africover project and the UN’s DEPHA to Open Street Map. OSM will play a crucial role in some of our...
Following up on my post yesterday about some of the reasons we’re excited about OpenStreetMap, I wanted to announce our plans to pull together a “GIS for humanitarian relief” team this spring to work just on improving the...