List of Links to Find People Displaced by Katrina

great link

Thanks, Phoenix. I have a cousin who lived in New Orleans for a couple of years, and she's been worried about some of her good friends there. I'm going to email her, and tell her about this list!

Apparently people with some PC's can use this link to pinpoint exact houses in various cities, and google is working to put hurricane photo overlays in place -

http://earth.google.com/

There was a New York Times article about it this morning; I don't have a link right now.

Here's another site. If you have family/friends in
New Orleans, maybe they've checked in to
confirm they're alive.
http://www.nola.com/

Google earth - pretty stunning

Thanks for the links, guys. I've emailed them to my cousin. I just hope her friends are on them!

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/05/technology/05google.html


Here's part of the article in that link -

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, hundreds of displaced residents and their relatives - along with people like Mr. Sprague - have turned to the Internet for information about a home feared damaged or destroyed. Many are using Google Earth, a program available at the Google Web site that lets users zoom in on any address for an aerial view drawn from a database of satellite photos.

By the end of last week, a grass-roots effort had identified scores of posthurricane images, determined the geographical coordinates and visual landmarks to enable their integration into the Google Earth program, and posted them to a Google Earth bulletin board - the place ZuluOne turned for help.

Most of the images originated with the Remote Sensing Division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which has been posting them to its Web site (noaa.gov) since Wednesday.

Taking inspiration from the online volunteers, Google, NASA and Carnegie Mellon University had by Saturday night made the effort more formal, incorporating nearly 4,000 posthurricane images into the Google Earth database (at earth.google.com) for public use.

---- see link for more of the article

Here's another link from the Red Cross that I found:

http://www.familylinks.icrc.org/katrina/people