2011 Rio de Janeiro Flooding

Strong rain between 11th 12th January caused floods and mudslides throughout the hilly regions of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil

Spot satellite imagery

Spot Image (now part of Astrium Geo-Information Services) has made imagery of the affected area available under the following licence (read before use): http://www.youmapps.org/licenses/EULA-OSM-en.html

  • Pre-disaster SPOTMaps, probably from 2008-2009
    • Area covered
    • WMS link - (select EPSG:4326 (WGS84) projection in JOSM preferences to avoid the overlapping tiles problem that can be seen with Mercator projection) - use source=Spot 5, CNES/Spot Image, 2008-2009

Affected towns

The main towns affected:

Satellite imagery request

Thus, the Area Of Interest (AOI) for imagery would be:

  • from -22 to -22.7 degrees of latitude (south)
  • from -42.3 to -43.3 degrees of longitude (west)

(view bbox)

Mapping needs

Blocked roads: Map roads completely or partially blocked to traffic.

See Rodovias da região serrana do Rio permanecem interditadas; veja lista

Team Coordination

Mappers are meeting in conference rooms at Jabber and IRC:

News

See Also

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