Queensland

 This is a great article showing how maps can help anyone at a time of need.  Don't just ignore those flood maps that are produced, it just might help you or a friend sometime.  The other ideas of items to be located on the map will help the average person also.

http://www.crikey.com.au/2011/01/12/queensland-flood-maps-building-a-database-in-times-of-crisis/

I did this as an Emergency Response and as a partial Environmental Hazard.  I didn’t add Waste Treatment and Hazardous Waste, but you get the idea.  These are very major factors when considering floods.  OK, so I added a few extra.  As you see, I had a lot more in mind.  This is from working as an Environmental GIS program Manager for operations overseas.

Type	Format	Scale and Extent	Utility
Bridges	shapefile	large scale; 1:10,000 - 1:25,000, vector, points/polyline	To see which bridges made it through the flood
Roads	shapefile	vector, polyline	To verify which roads are still passable
Police stations	shapefile	large scale; 1:10,000 - 1:25,000, vector, points	Need to know location and manpower for evacuation and looter control
rivers/streams	shapefile	vector, polyline	locations of rivers/streams will help determine areas of possible flooding for pre-planning
hospitals	shapefile	vector, points	determine locations available to accept patients and to determine if need to be evacuated
Hazardous Material Areas	shapefile	large scale; 1:10,000 - 1:25,000, vector, points/polyline	Need to know HazMat areas to evacuate fokls first or to warn residents of potential health hazard
Emergency Evac centers	shapefile	large scale; 1:10,000 - 1:25,000, vector, points/polyline
State Emergency Service Equipment depots	shapefile	vector points	Used to get needed equipment correct location
Damage Assessment	depends on tools used for data collection	large scale; 1:10,000 - 1:25,000, vector, points/polyline/polygon	This might be a team on the ground performing damage assessment for an up-to-date picture for concurrent planning

These are the items I thought would be important to be able to perform a query on.  For clean-up and response purposes, you need to know what equipment is available and where it is located to see if it can help

State Emergency Service Equipment depot	SES_depot_Name	Location	Manned	Dozer	Backhoe	Chainsaws	Dump_Trucks
001	Wynnum	2783 Peel St	Yes	6	3	10	6
002	Graceville East	1983 Baronsfield St	No	2	5	6	2

I didn’t go into the full extent of equipment that each depot might stock, but you see that know what is available and where it is available would help in the planning of rescue operations.