Yet thanks to thousands of online volunteers, more complete maps have been built to aid in both the Haiti and Chile response. For example, Crisis commons has a wiki page for the Chile earthquake, with a list of online tasks for volunteer helpers, including the Open street map project.  Various online communitites have also been started to support crisis mapping, among others by Google. The maps often contain specific info on the state of hospitals, location of camps, cut off roads and so on, as in the Ushahidi mapping project.

The below animation of the progression of the Openstreetmap coverage in south-western Haïti following the January 2010 earthquake illustrates the rapid global mobilization of volunteer mappers to assist humanitarian operations in the field:

People worldwide are also responding through online media; hundreds of groups have been formed on Facebook and people are actively donating to relief organizations online. The American Red Cross has raised one million dollars through mobile and online tools and has overall been very effective in using social media to reach out and to keep people updated on the situation on the ground. Immediately after the quake they posted this video which now has been viewed by more than a million people :