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Schmaps: another dual-use crowdsourcing app for disasters
By WDavidStephenson | August 13, 2007
Must admit that 
I’m not quite the intrepid adventurer of my youth, which is why I guess I hadn’t heard about the interactive web-based maps from Schmap.
Quite kewl, I’d say:
- integrates maps and guide content dynamically, which results in real-time access to reviews and accompanying photo slideshows
- desktop version (for Windoz only until later this month — we Mac people are fundamentally homebodies, I guess) is based on Schmap 2.0, a desktop app that adds options such as virtual tours, printing full-color guides, and publishing self-authored guides.
It would seem to me to be a simple step following a disaster to take an existing Schmap of a city as the starting point, then add real-time, location-based information such as where elderly or handicapped residents lived, where there was significant damage, so the tour guide could instead become a real-time map for first responders and others to coordinate relief efforts. Continued…
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