We’ve released another update today, with a few tweaks and for things that weren’t quite right in the big 1.2 release last month. Jeff Thurston of Vector One blog and magazine took the opportunity to highlight some of the recent improvements we’ve made. As before, he is very complimentary, particularly of our collaboration features:

The email fea­ture is slick — I think. Why? Because in an emer­gency sit­u­a­tion many peo­ple will depend on send­ing quick emails with infor­ma­tion. The avail­able icons to quickly iden­tify and locate or markup maps is what makes this soft­ware extremely use­ful for emer­gency and relief situations.

He also has some screenshots from the Haiti earthquake scenario on the Depiction downloads page.

To see how a map like that one can be built very rapidly, check out our ‘90 Seconds to Map an Earthquake‘ video from January.