← home / Tools / Collaborative maps of shelters and water levels⚙● toolCollaborative maps of shelters and water levelsPractices that use itkeralarescue.in: open crisis mapping platform for the 2018 Kerala floodsDuring the August 2018 Kerala floods, hundreds of volunteer developers built a crisis mapping and rescue coordination web platform and app. keralarescue.in (Django/Python, open source on GitHub from day 0) allowed registering rescue requests and locating shelters, camps, water levels and supplies. The Kerala government adopted it as its official site. ~1,500 technologists collaborated for free (some 69 in the main repo) and it received millions of requests. After the emergency the service stopped being maintained and the domain went inactive/for sale; the durable legacy is the open source repositories.● Discontinued· scale subnational
