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	<title>Comments on: Quickbits March 2009</title>
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	<description>because information can save lives</description>
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		<title>By: Paul Currion</title>
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		<dc:creator>Paul Currion</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 05:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>To some extent I agree about WikiMapAid. The problem is that it&#039;s a tool without a process behind it. If OCHA were doing their job properly, then this information would be well-managed &lt;em&gt;and&lt;/em&gt; widely-available. We&#039;re back to the tension between formal GIS and informal neomapping approaches, and I&#039;m not sure where WikiMapAid fits in. Open Street Map already exists, and would be a perfect fit for the baseline data that you refer to, and I&#039;d be interested to know from WikiMapAid where there added value is on top of that.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To some extent I agree about WikiMapAid. The problem is that it&#8217;s a tool without a process behind it. If OCHA were doing their job properly, then this information would be well-managed <em>and</em> widely-available. We&#8217;re back to the tension between formal GIS and informal neomapping approaches, and I&#8217;m not sure where WikiMapAid fits in. Open Street Map already exists, and would be a perfect fit for the baseline data that you refer to, and I&#8217;d be interested to know from WikiMapAid where there added value is on top of that.</p>
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		<title>By: Lucien Lefcourt</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lucien Lefcourt</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:35:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Paul, I agree with your comments on using twitter in emergency response. The concept could work in the first 24-48hrs to calm panic and direct rescue effort, but is exactly when mobile and internet networks will be cut off or overloaded. Then after that period the information needs are too complex to be adequately shared via 144 character &quot;tweets&quot;.

I don&#039;t, however, share your view of WikiMapAid. While the concept is not useful in all disaster scenarios, I think such a tool could have helped agencies overcome confusions over overlapping place names in contexts such as the Pakistan Earthquake and its thousands of informal &quot;mahallas&quot; (neighborhoods) or even last years Bihar Flooding and its rapidly moving informal camps. There everyone is initially reporting information on village or neighborhood level, which often have names that are not officially recorded or agreed upon by local authorities. In that context, a wikimap could prove useful to spot overlapping interventions and gaps. Now this version lacks a lot of important facets, the first that jumps to mind is a lack of date information, but it could develop into something useful.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Paul, I agree with your comments on using twitter in emergency response. The concept could work in the first 24-48hrs to calm panic and direct rescue effort, but is exactly when mobile and internet networks will be cut off or overloaded. Then after that period the information needs are too complex to be adequately shared via 144 character &#8220;tweets&#8221;.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t, however, share your view of WikiMapAid. While the concept is not useful in all disaster scenarios, I think such a tool could have helped agencies overcome confusions over overlapping place names in contexts such as the Pakistan Earthquake and its thousands of informal &#8220;mahallas&#8221; (neighborhoods) or even last years Bihar Flooding and its rapidly moving informal camps. There everyone is initially reporting information on village or neighborhood level, which often have names that are not officially recorded or agreed upon by local authorities. In that context, a wikimap could prove useful to spot overlapping interventions and gaps. Now this version lacks a lot of important facets, the first that jumps to mind is a lack of date information, but it could develop into something useful.</p>
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