Last night was a late night for Anne. To ensure the necessary plots would be ready for this morning she set up the printer and laptop in a hotel bathroom and set it running into the night (earplugs ensured a good night's sleep).

And also for Alex, who produced a series of 1:50,000 scale maps of Klaten district and three large format maps for plotting at the government planning office this morning. He was dropped off at the government office this morning and, after a few technical false starts, got the plotter to churn out the required A0 and A1 size sheets, and meanwhile finished off some other maps he had been working on.

Anne managed to get a copy of a popular geological hazard map of Mount Merapi and got it scanned, through the ever-helpful Danang, a locally based architect and local planning officer. This map is being geo-referenced tonight for feature extraction. Anne received some data from the UN FAO on those villages that have been evacuated from the slopes of Mount Merapi, to create an evacuation map.

The quality of base data available for mapping on this deployment so far has been excellent. Individuals, scientific organisations and the government have all been willing to share their data without conditions. On the other hand, the small MapAction team has found that working 'embedded' within the UN system brings its own limitations, and has meant they have had less access to the wide range of situation information that was available to the larger MapAction teams on other projects - notably the Asian tsunami and the Kashmir earthquake - who were able to rove more widely for relevant information.

MapAction's mission in Indonesia will be completed on Monday. Tomorrow, Alex and Anne will be handing over maps and data to UN-OCHA, and in the afternoon, if the hand-over goes smoothly, they plan to go out into the field to 'ground-truth' some of the information interpreted from the satellite data they have been using.