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I know of a few people who worked on maps in Houston (and helped some out in minor ways), but AFAIK there wasn't one single map that "won out". I was the one w
by jtnegrotto 9y ago
I know of a few people who worked on maps in Houston (and helped some out in minor ways), but AFAIK there wasn't one single map that "won out".
I was the one who created the Cajun Navy's crowd-sourced rescue mapping strategy, though, while helping out with the 2016 Louisiana floods, so I can give a little insight.
At first, I just saw that people were posting requests for rescue in various Facebook groups and becoming quickly buried under requests by others. So I spent a lot of time combing through the posts and adding the details to a spreadsheet, which I then posted on Batchgeo for rescuers to use.
After that, I started working with the people from one of the Facebook groups who had set up a Google Form for submitting rescue requests, and ended up periodically copying requests over from there.
We also had another form for updates regarding a specific request, and were fielding phone calls from people about it as well.
The original map is actually still up here if interested: https://batchgeo.com/map/984218ef8a04f3587f6e723561501e89 https://batchgeo.com/map/984218ef8a04f3587f6e723561501e89
- doodlebugging 9y agoThanks for your efforts. We ended up using a different map that was very similar to the one you linked.
- jtnegrotto 9y agoFor Houston or Louisiana? The map I linked (and the bulk of my comment) are about what we did in Louisiana last year. I'm not completely in the know regarding Houston.
- doodlebugging 9y agoSorry. The map you linked is very similar to the map we used for the Houston/Galveston/Orange areas. The people needing rescue were tagged as in your map and useful info about each location was available, in the map we used, on the left sidebar.