Crisis Mapping
Ushahidi means 
''testimony'' in Swahili
The website was developed to map reports of violence in 
Kenya after the post-election violence in 2008. 
USHAHIDI
Submit incidents by SMS text
or online
The code for Ushahidi is open source and anyone can take and customize it to their unique circumstance.

Ushahidi has quickly been taken up by a number of other agencies ...
used to track reports of incidents of violence around Kenya.
Al Jazeera used Ushahidi in their "War on Gaza" website after Israel launched a military attack on the Gaza Strip in Dec 2008
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BBC Graphics Team
Map of Lockerbie
In 1988
Nicholas Witchell
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In 2009
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US Federal Aviation Authority
Released the audio tapes of pilot and controllers
Flight Tracks released by the 
US government 
Australian Bushfires
A Google Map using real time data from the
Country Fire Authority (CFA)
The Victorian Government's refusal to provide data for Google's bushfire map mashup limited its scope and highlighted glaring problems with Crown copyright provisions.
The CFA, manages fires on private lands and within four hours of being asked for the data the map was live.

Google's search for data to plot fires on public lands — which are managed by the Victorian Department of Sustainability and Environment — produced an entirely different result. Here they met with an explicit denial of permission to access VDSA's internal data,
Real Time Information
Copyright
Crowdsourcing
Crowdsourcing
In times of crisis people want maps
With the growth of the Internet people demand near real-time information
Real-time maps
United States Geological Survey - Earthquake Hazards Program, makes accessible most of the raw and processed data from its various monitoring networks including earthquake catalogs, waveform data, earthquake hazard data, ground shaking data, fault information and crustal data.
Google Flu Trends uses aggregated Google search data to estimate current flu activity around the world in near real-time.