Thursday, May 29, 2008

Media advisory: Humanitarian maps on Myanmar cyclone crisis

Please be advised that the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is producing up-to-date humanitarian maps on the Cyclone Nargis disaster in Myanmar. The maps are updated as the situation develops. The latest product is a map showing affected populations by townships.

OCHA grants permission to users to visit the site and to download and copy the maps with attribution.

The maps are available at Humanitarian Information Centre - Myanmar: Virtual Fusion (interactive mapping http://myanmar.humanitarianinfo.org/map%20center/Pages/VisualFusion.aspx); and MapCatalog (http://myanmar.humanitarianinfo.org/map%20center/Pages/default.aspx)

For further information, please call: Stephanie Bunker, OCHA-New York, +1 917 367 5126, mobile +1 917 892 1679; John Nyaga, OCHA-NY, + 1 917 367 9262; Elisabeth Byrs, OCHA-Geneva, +41 22 917 2653, mobile, +41 79 473 4570. OCHA press releases are available at http://ochaonline.un.org or www.reliefweb.int.

Source : http://www.reliefweb.int/

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