The SOS Alerts for floods in Western India including for Kerala, Karnataka, Maharashtra in Google Maps.
A step by step post of what we as Local Guides and Maps users can help our local community by flagging affected roads and areas where we are located.
- Go to Map, and zoom into any area in Western India. Screen shot below for Kerala, you should see a card for “Western India Floods”
- Click on the card, and on this card, you can see the updates and news about latest updates. Here any Maps user can report road closures. Click on that feature “Report Road Closure”.
- After you click on “Report Road Closures” you can zoom in into anywhere.
- You can then zoom into each local town or area and click on each road that is closed due to floods. Selected roads will the highlighted in blue. Click next and put in the correct information. If this is to highlight flooding, do select the Local Event “Western India Floods” tag. That will get updated in Google Maps shortly
- For everyone else using Google Maps to see updates, they will be able to see the areas where road are closed or possibly closed as highlighted by users as below. And each user can update each segment when situation changes by clicking on each alert symbol.
- For all flood updates from the Kerala state government, please refer to https://keralarescue.in/ for the updated list of help required, and shelter camps etc.
I will try to find related websites for Karnataka & Maharashtra
- I am trying to compile any other lists of MyMaps that are being built to shelter relief and I will share them later as I find them out.