Colombia/Project-2010 floods/Map resources

OpenStreetMap has an active community of Colombian contributors who have made excellent progress with mapping the country. See the Colombia page for details. As a result OpenStreetMap and other organizations are offering useful free map resources, released with an open license . . .

Communications

• Disaster Reporting Tool, Monitor from ColombiaSSH.org (Ushahidi-based) established Nov 2010.
• OSM IRC channel: irc.oftc.net #osm-co

Maps

Live

• Browse the map on OpenStreetMap.org

Periodic updates

• Download extracts provided by GeoFabrik

Static

• Browse flooded areas and print maps, as detected by Radar, with Geonode (as pdf)
• Municipalities and Districts in OSM format (contents have been organized on Import pages for Departments and Municipalities)

For GPS units

• Download extracts/garmin IMG files provided by CloudMade
• Download garmin IMG file (13 Mb) provided by Qwerty, better for end users (last update: 13 December 2010)