Google Helps Hurricane Ketsana Victims in the Philippines

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Google Maps shows the aftermath of Hurricane Ketsana in the Philippines.

Google Maps shows the aftermath of Hurricane Ketsana in the Philippines.

For a Silicon Valley giant, Google demonstrates a remarkably worldwide viewpoint. The Mountain View powerhouse has set up a landing page compiling information for anyone who wants to help the victims of Hurricane Ketsana in the Philippines (known as Typhoon Ondoy in that country).

Hurricane Ketsana victims.

Hurricane Ketsana victims.

The page features user-created Google Maps overlays indicating missing persons, road conditions, donation centers, and crisis situations. As you can see from the many markers in the screenshot snippet above, Ketsana made quite a mess of things.

Ketsana hit the Philippines even harder than Katrina hit Louisiana, so help is definitely needed. Kudos to Web-savvy Filipinos on pulling together for this humanitarian use of Google Maps, and kudos to Google on further facilitating that use with a landing page.

(Photo by rembcc. BY-NC-SA.)

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October 8, 2009

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One Comment on “Google Helps Hurricane Ketsana Victims in the Philippines”
  1. Romeo says:
    October 8, 2009 at 6:01 am

    A noble aid by Google which expectedly is very yielding. But will not be of much use if it weren’t for as you’ve said Web-savvy Filipinos. The page requires much cooperation from users and cooperation they did give not only made apparent by two trending topics on Twitter for two days, but across the web.

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