Google Crisis Response Map forflood relief efforts in Uttarakhand, India Widespread flood damage continues to ravage Uttarakhand, India and our heart goes out to people who have lost their near and dear ones, their property and assets. Relief agencies are working overtime to bring order and aid to the affected people, and here at Google we’d like to continue providing support in whatever way we can. Just yesterday, our Crisis Response team launched Person Finderin Hindi and English to help affected people find missing loved ones. Today, the Google Crisis Response team is opening up another initiative that we hope can assist in the efforts — a Crisis Map for Uttarakhand. This crisis map is only an early version aimed at providing quick information, such as, places affected, relief centers and road closures. As always, in times of suchdisaster, accurate information is hard to come by and our Crisis Response team has relied on scantily available information where available. For now, you’ll find the following information. We are hoping to add more as we go along. *. Areas impacted by the floods *. Relief centers and shelters *. Medical Centers *.Road closure information Responding to a disaster of this scale is a daunting task, but we can all do something to help. From experiences in past calamities, we have learnt how crucial and helpful real-time information is for responding agencies and people affected by the disaster.We rely on all of you to contribute better information and improve the accuracy over the coming days. In case you do have information to share, please write in touttarakhand-crisis@go oglegroups
Posted on: Tue, 25 Jun 2013 07:03:12 +0000
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