Ahem. Nuclear Weapons.

Just from working in a municipal government with Rights-of-Way (ROW) and Easements. I would say that the vast majority of telecom infrastructure is in public ROWs and easements. My gut feeling is 90%.

Figuring how much exactly in on easements and ROWs, even on a small scale, is a huge a problem. Some places have hired someone to record the easements and ROW into a GIS system, some places, haven't. Some places have great maps of ROW, some don't. Until the state or federal government says you must, local governments won't. If money doesn't come to help, it still won't happen.

Power Management, duh. In order to power down the other 3 cores to save battery life.

The article leads to believe these tubes will suck, literally. These tubes are not really anything new.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumatic_tube

...but what about some those other where they use NTSC, today. I'm sure they would beg to differ that NTSC is dead.

Countries and territories using NTSC

If someone is using GIS Professionals to help the Hatians, why not get DigitalGlobe or TerraServer or another Satellite Imagery company to generate (georectify) before and after images of the areas. Host those images on a server.

If someone could setup a website comparing the before the earthquake and after, you could use collective GIS and Remote Sensing community (you could use collective intelligence to tell people what need to be done to help recovery) to show blocked roads and bridges and help someone on the ground to coordinate those effort.

The imagery would be useful to see where the most damage has occurred.

~ Micah Cochran