[OSM-talk] Timeline animation of Haïti map evolution

[Jean-Guilhem Cailton]

Wonderful Eric !

I bet it is going to end up in many tv news !

It is a bit late for today here in Europe, but the Atlantic is wide... ;)

I vote for this to go very high in the wiki.

Jean-Guilhem


Eric Marsden a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> I have created two video animations that illustrate the rapid
> improvement of Haïti coverage in OSM following the earthquake. One shows
> the Port au Prince region, overlaid on JAXA satellite imagery :
>
>   http://eric.marsden.free.fr/tmp/osm-port-au-prince.mp4
>
> and the other the entire island of Hispanolia
>
>   http://eric.marsden.free.fr/tmp/osm-haiti.mp4
>
> I think these illustrate the rapid worldwide mobilization of volunteer
> mappers to assist humanitarian workers on the ground.
>
>
>
> The videos are based on the timestamps in GeoFabrik's 20100123 Haïti
> extract (an element that has been touched several times will only appear
> the last time it was modified). They are generated with a small Common
> Lisp program available at 
>
>   http://eric.marsden.free.fr/tmp/osm-history.tgz
>
>