[HOT] Report on the first week of Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team work Haiti (warning: long)

[Jean-Guilhem Cailton]

Robert, and Nicolas,

Thanks a lot for your report and your fantastic work in Haiti !


For geo-localized and "somewhat private" short messages, for example for 
reports from the ground, you might want to have a look at GeoChat, from 
InSTEDD (who helped set up 4636 short code in Haiti). For this, go to 
http://geochat.instedd.org, sign up for an account (free of course), and 
join one or several groups. There is a Haiti group there, "created in 
response to the Haiti earthquake to help responders coordinate". If you 
feel like experimenting with GeoChat first, there is also a HHFT test 
group that I set up and in which you'd be welcome.

 From what I understand, it should be possible to send and receive SMS 
GeoChat messages from Haiti through Twitter short code 40404 
<http://help.twitter.com/forums/59008/entries/14226>, for Digicel 
customers (starting tweets with "d geochat", after you have set up your 
Twitter channel in your GeoChat account). A confirmation of this would 
be interesting.

To get OSM map with your latest updates as the basis for GeoChat maps, 
you may want to use this simple tile redirection scheme:  
http://tinyurl.com/yjdhydb (from Komzpa).


Best wishes,

Jean-Guilhem
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