Updated disaster map of rescue, road conditions, and relief centers

The interactive map below contains road conditions, the status of flooded areas, and the locations of relief centers, in addition to the original data set of stranded people needing rescue in calamity areas. GMANews.TV staff and volunteers have spent the better part of the last 72 hours harvesting the information from TV, radio, social media and callers and web users who have contacted us; and then pinpointing precise locations on the map. A simple explanation of the map's functions is below the map.
View Ondoy disaster situation map in a larger map How to change the map view

• Click on the arrows, or click-and-drag the hand-shaped cursor, to move around the map.
• Click on + and - , or scroll the mouse wheel up and down, to zoom in and out.
• Click on the blue-colored link at the bottom edge of the map, to enlarge the Google map and see available search tools.

IMPORTANT NOTE As of 4:30 p.m. Tuesday Sept. 29, the markers on this map have reached such a big number that they can no longer be displayed on a single page. We now have multiple pages, where the last page displays the most recently-pinned markers. To navigate between pages, first enlarge the map. Then scroll down to the bottom of the map page and click on "1" or "2" and so on. What the different markers mean Each color-coded marker represents a specific Ondoy-related situation or event.

• blue pin - request for urgent help by stranded individuals, households, groups
• green pin - relief center, evacuation center, donation drop-off center
• green line - passable road sections
• purple line - impassable road sections
• purple-shaded pin or area - generally flooded, silted, or otherwise impassable area

Click on any pin to see details of these emergency cases. Please share the map and information with any rescue and relief teams looking for heroic things to do. We have another interactive map of missing persons accompanied by an online data base maintained by volunteers. An earlier list of stranded persons awaiting rescue, together with another embedded map, is contained in an earlier advisory. Maps and data managed by GMANews.Tv team with GMA News Research. Karmic brownie points to the following volunteers who shared their time in helping harvest and upload this vital data into the map: TJ Dimacali, Nessa Valdellon, JJ Jimeno, Melay Lapena, AJ Paayas, June Taguiwalo, Pia Faustino, and Annalyn Ardona. We still need help. If you want to volunteer your brains and time to update our data base and maps, contact howieseverino@gmail.com.GMANews.TV