In the practice of the disaster report service in Taiwan, we learned something, and then share our experience yesterday in the Law Enforcement and Public Safety Domain Working Group of the OGC TC meeting in Met Office, Exeter, UK. This talk, "Briefing on the Practice of Heavy Rain Response in Taiwan (June 12-13)", quickly shares our thoughts of this deployment with Ushahidi + Open GeoSMS, and then introduce of the open platforms and the fifth elements that we mentioned in GeoThings blog before.
What we would like to address is, OPEN is not just to reveal it, but allow people to do further process and mashup easily! We know there will be people who wants to know what's going on during disaster, people want to submit report about what happened and what they need, the stand by task force want to know where to provide their help, and so on. To make those information suitable to various audiences is not the responsibility of one organization or government agency, but should be done through different forces, even the free lancers. That's why the data need to be open and accessible for mashup easily. We will keep running our service and promoting the importance of this idea, not sure if it will work out, but we will keep doing.
Another typhon is coming to Taiwan, and we hope everything will be fine. God Bless Taiwan.
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