Free Knowledge Culture Calendar/January 13

frameless|right|OpenStreetMap coverage of Port-Au-Prince, Haiti on January 14th, 2010. Today in 2010 OpenStreetMap volunteers started the first disaster relief mapping project in response to a devastating earthquake having struck Haiti the day before. First recent aerial imagery of the situation had just become available; – within a week they had accomplished the unprecedented feat of providing ground teams with up-to-date, street-level maps of the disaster zone. This began a tradition of humanitarian usage of OpenStreetMap, carried on by groups such as the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team, Missing Maps, and other groups. January 12 January 14