A tour through various different crisis mapping deployments and projects, some with SBTF, one personal project, some in collaboration with local groups, from 2011-2013. I attempt to identify some of the strengths and weaknesses of different approaches and different projects.

1. Tales of a crisis mapper
Various aspects of crisis mapping,
good, bad and ugly….
2011-2013
by Brendan O’Hanrahan

3. Homs – geography of the initial revolt

4. Uttarakhand (N India) –
devastating flash floods, June
2013

5. Khartoum floods – August 2013

6. Aerial view of Khartoum floods
August 2013

7. Umap for Khartoum floods
- priority areas for satellite imagery
and HOT digitising

8. Following the UNISPACE III conference
held in Vienna, Austria in July 1999, the
European and French space agencies (ESA
and CNES) initiated the International
Charter "Space and Major Disasters“.
The International Charter aims at
providing a unified system of space data
acquisition and delivery to those affected
by natural or man-made disasters
through Authorized Users. Each member
agency has committed resources to
support the provisions of the Charter and
thus is helping to mitigate the effects of
disasters on human life and property.

10. Sudan floods placenames database

11. Abena protests, Sept 2013
– locations in Khartoum

12. Cyclone Phailin
Odisha and Andhra Pradesh
– October 2013