Road Status after the Earthquake in Sendai, Japan
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A new web service reveals Road Status after the Earthquake in Japan based on OpenStreetMap. Pascal Neis, member of the GIScience Research Group of the University of Heidelberg (http://giscience.uni-hd.de) has generated a dynamic map overlay showing the Road Status after the Earthquake in Sendai, Japan based on the user generated maps from OpenStreetMap. It is being updated every 30 minutes.
Here you see the results http://resultmap.neis-one.org/japan.html and here he tells how it is done: http://neis-one.org/2011/03/japan-osm/