If a picture tells a thousand words, there are few images that explain the impact of the Haitian earthquake disaster better than the satellite view of the Petionville golf course.
Within days of the disaster, Haiti's only golf course – and a rare pocket of wealth in the poorest country in the Western hemisphere – had been filled with makeshift tents that became home to an estimated 55,000 people. The transformation of Petionville was documented thoroughly on Google Maps, which uses satellite imagery provided by GeoEye.
The day after the disaster, planes captured the state of the course – which already showed people starting to set up makeshift homes on the camp. GeoEye sent multiple flights out in the weeks after the disaster; all these layers can be viewed on Google Earth's "time" layer, which scrolls back from today to before the earthquake...
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