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GIS Corps and Hurricane Katrina
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The JAGIS-L mailing list points to a CNN article about geographers and hurricane Katrina's relief. GIS Corps has been mentioned here before. From the article: "Elhami, co-founder of GISCorps, said that since 2004, the organization's volunteers have responded to disasters such as the Asian tsunami and Hurricane Katrina, as well as efforts to provide humanitarian relief, sustainable development, economic development, health, and education in all parts of the world. The Corps had 20 volunteers on the ground in Mississippi less than 48 hours after Katrina's landfall."
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Very Spatial discuss the U.S. National Map Corps: "By volunteering you receive an area (quad sheet or less) in which you and your trusty GPS unit go out and gather information on commonly mapped features (churches, schools, communications) and send in the information to be included in the National Map. [...] A cool idea that has been echoed more recently in TomTom’s Mapshare and of course the more ambitious OSM." Here's the official National Map Corps site. This is quite different from the GIS Corps discussed two years ago.
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