Cyclone Phailin (India) - Crisis Maps and Resources

http://google.org/crisismap/2013-phailin http://google.org/crisismap/a/gmail.com/2013-phailin-cyclone

The Crisis Respone Google website has created crowd-sourced maps of volunteers offering shelter in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha. Clicking on the shelter or red cross gives more details about the shelter and hospital in the area. The maps are also highlighting the intensity of the cyclone at different spots. All the data shown on the map is crowdsourced from publicly visible webpages of news websites, forums, social media, blogs, Wikipedia and government sites.

The maps have been set up by netizens who call themselves 'digital humanitarian volunteers' or so called CrisisMappers. The online volunteers along with on-the-ground relief mates from different places, including volunteers of StandBy Task Force, OpenCrisis, Info4Disasters, ERCIS, CrisisMappersUK, etc. and several students from universities and research centers including Kno.e.sis and QCRI are working on the map.

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Google Person Finder - http://google.org/personfinder/2013-phailin/ Google's Person Finder, open source software that allows individuals to post and search for the status of relatives or friends affected by a disaster, has been set up for cyclone Phailin. All data entered into Google Person Finder is available to the public and searchable and accessible by anyone. You can click on 'I am looking for someone' or 'I have information on someone' and add details into the software.

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Phailin Cyclone Volunteer spreadsheet

A spreadsheet of volunteer-driven relief coordination is available at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AppW8Gi1zVHtdFFHSGViaEY5Y1NsYi1lc1NTTExxT1E&usp=drive_web#gid=1 It has a list of volunteer names, numbers and shelters available in Orissa and Andhra Pradesh.

For additional information - http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/1902500/report-google-s-person-finder-and-google-crisis-response-map-for-phailin-to-help-with-crisis-information