Disaster and emergency management is inherently a spatial problem. In case of disaster, the use of real‐time location‐based social media posts within the spatial decision support processes has great potential so that resource distribution can be planned, damage areas can be determined, the amount of damage can be estimated, and evacuation and/or help routes can be defined. Crowdsourced data and collaborative platforms like OpenStreetMap and Twitter can be widely employed for near‐real‐time mapping to support emergency management. After a disaster occurs, the aim is to quickly assess and triage damage, injury, and loss of life, and respond with medicine, food, water, housing, and basic infrastructure. In the scope of the study, in a similar manner, a solution, called WITNER, is proposed, designed, and developed. The difference is that WITNER is a cloud‐native geo‐enabled solution. The value of WITNER lies in the fact that it acts only as a mediator in translating help requests posted on a social media platform into spatially readable form, while keeping original social media post requests intact and accessible. The main purpose of WITNER is to help more people and save more lives in case of emergency response, with the intention of preventing the same help request locations being concurrently targeted by multiple relief, search, and rescue efforts. Moreover, it reveals more viable and less costly help requests that might take less time for potential help providers to assist with.

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应用后时代的移动地理社会感知应急响应

灾难和应急管理本质上是一个空间问题。在发生灾难的情况下，在空间决策支持流程中使用基于位置的实时社交媒体帖子具有很大的潜力，因此可以规划资源分配，确定损坏区域，估算损坏数量并撤离和/或帮助路线可以定义。众包数据和协作平台（如OpenStreetMap和Twitter）可广泛用于近实时映射，以支持应急管理。灾难发生后，目标是快速评估和分类破坏，伤害和生命损失，并以药品，食物，水，房屋和基本基础设施做出响应。在研究范围内，以类似的方式，提出，设计和开发了一种称为WITNER的解决方案。区别在于WITNER是基于云的地理支持解决方案。威特纳（WITNER）的价值在于它仅作为一种调解员将社交媒体平台上发布的帮助请求转换为空间可读形式，同时保持原始社交媒体发布请求的完整性和可访问性。WITNER的主要目的是在紧急情况下帮助更多的人并挽救更多的生命，以防止通过多个救援，搜救行动同时瞄准相同的帮助请求地点。此外，它还显示了更可行，更省钱的帮助请求，而潜在的帮助提供者可能需要更少的时间来提供帮助。