AdAge explains how Greater New Orleans Community Data Center (GNOCDC) is using “junk mail” to help map where the current residents of New Orleans reside. The nonprofit GNOCDC has been working with Valassis Communications’ owner of the RedPlum direct-mail operation. Red Plum sends out basically nationwide mailings each month. By luck the company had a 2005 data with which to compare the current state of mailing addresses today. The data is being used to use funds for rebuilding and has saved quite a lot in manual surveys of “who is where.”
GNOCDC has linked the data to a Google Map (James Fee and Co worked on this, per a tweet yesterday; I didn’t follow up then because he noted a publication called “Adage,” of which I’d not heard!). Also of note: Valassis provided much of the data at cost and the historic data and consulting gratis.
Bottom line:
Overall, the Valassis data indicates New Orleans had 146,174 households receiving mail in June 2008, still down 28% from the 203,457 receiving mail in June 2005, two months before the Aug. 29, 2005, hurricane and resulting flood.
via Wired blog
by Adena Schutzberg on 08/21 at 07:52 AM |
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U.S. News and World Report for June 23 provided a detailed map of the resettlement progress in New Orleans in an article entitled, "The Road Back Home." The map is an "activity" index of areas rebounding from the pre-Hurricane Katrina levels based on utilities, mail service and building permits. The map was created by GCR & Associates and their more detailed analysis of the resettlement can be downloaded from their website (PowerPoint presentation). Neither source stipulates the geographic subdivision but it appears to be at the street block level.
by Joe Francica on 06/18 at 08:25 AM |
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The Army Corps of Engineers developed the Google Earth-based maps with the city, businesses and local groups.
In creating the Web site, the Corps of Engineers ran 152 future storm scenarios on supercomputers to estimate water levels that could be expected under different weather conditions across the Louisiana coastal area. The scenario variables included barometric pressure, maximum wind speed, storm size, how fast the storm was moving and direction of storm track.
- GCN
by Adena Schutzberg on 08/24 at 08:28 AM |
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The Sherrif in Cullman County Alabama got a new toy recently and showed it off at the area July 4th events. It’s a surplus Hurricane Katrina trailer now outfitted as a mobile command center. That’s not the interesting part, this is:
The unit’s computer system is equipped with Google Earth, which is a broadband 3D application that allows users to view three-dimensional maps by combining satellite imagery with the Google Search engine.
I note this because Pictometry was doing very well settling itself in exactly this space with its oblique imagery solutions. Certainly, the Google Earth client is maturing, as are the datasets, but I suspect the aerial obliques still have an edge (and are provided in many areas on Microsoft’s Live Search Maps). Moreover, the idea of depending on broadband in time of emergency sounds dodgy; you’d want that data local, woudn’t you? Perhaps data is available in addition to the Google Earth data? I hope so.
- The Cullman Times
by Adena Schutzberg on 07/09 at 06:00 AM |
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