Crisismappers are online teams of people who gather and provide data online to people responding to and people caught up in disasters.

Crisismapping has been around for a while, but for most people it started with the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, where all the government and NGO information needed to respond to the earthquake was lost in the earthquake. We created online maps from satelllite images, put SMS and media reports onto an Ushahidi map, got documents into Sahana, added the details of people who were lost into Google's People Finder tool, built websites and software to help, and did dozens of other small data jobs that made a difference to what was available online and in the country (we even sent data updates into the country on USB sticks).  Since then, we've mapped in places like Libya (refugees), Japan (tsunami), Chile (earthquake), Pakistan (floods), Somalia (refugees), Alabama (tornadoes) and been ready to help with dozens of other crises around the world.

Crisismappers are usually volunteers: many of them are highly-skilled both at data gathering, mapping and analysis, and in areas which impact this work (like open-source technologies), but if you're new to crisismapping, don't let that put you off joining in: everyone starts as a newbie sometime, and many of those skills were gained through hours of working on maps.

This meetup is open to anyone working on crisismapping, working with crisismappers or interested in crisismapping in general. Please come join us!  We'll try to hold a meetup once a month if we can (getting venues in NYC is always a problem) - pub and date suggestions are also welcome if you just want to hang out with other mappers too (we usually collect up in the Coffee Shop bar on Union Square).

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Recent Meetups

  • November 9, 2011 at 6:30 PM, 3 Mappers attended

    Crisis Trivia Night
    Location is still TBA, but we know there will be beer and Disaster Response Trivia! Join us.

  • September 28, 2011 at 6:00 PM, 3 Mappers attended

    Crisismappers NYC Social

  • September 8, 2011 at 6:00 PM, 3 Mappers attended

    Carol Gallo's Crisismappers NYC leaving do
    One of our local crisismappers, Carol Gallo, is leaving party central (aka New York) for Cambridge England this month. We need to celebrate this, say goodbye to Carol... Learn more

  • August 31, 2011 at 6:00 PM, 13 Mappers attended

    Crisismappers Social
    Join us for a meet and greet and get to know your fellow crisismappers and crisismapping enthusiasts. All crisismappers and potential crisismappers are welcome. We're... Learn more
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