[HOT] HOT Sandy response in US News OpEd

[Schuyler Erle]

On Nov 27, 2012, at 6:31 AM, Tim Waters wrote:

> This is an interesting article, it gives two main examples, the
> MapMill deployment for Sandy, and Haiti earthquake OSM tracing and
> it's use in Ushahdi.
> 
> In both examples, the author asks the questions "but does it help?"
> "was it used?" etc. Which are valid questions, but it didn't appear
> that much effort was taken to ask organisations if it helped and if it
> was used.

Well, FEMA has given us anecdotal feedback, in the form of short videos from two FEMA administrators expressing appreciation to volunteers for their efforts.

  http://www.fema.gov/medialibrary/media_records/10369

  http://www.fema.gov/medialibrary/media_records/10370

FEMA also added the data to their GIS portal, so I presume that it was used by the GIS people there.

We'll be writing an after-action report including interviews and quantitative data from relevant professionals at FEMA and CAP, plus quality analysis and strategy for future events.

Let me take this opportunity to thank all the HOTties who stepped up and rated photos. Please do let me know on or off-list if you have questions or comments about the project.

SDE