Apropos of this entry, I found this site using Google Maps to aggregate up-to-date info on conditions in New Orleans. Looks like a great idea, really depends on keeping the signal-to-noise ratio high.
Apropos of this entry, I found this site using Google Maps to aggregate up-to-date info on conditions in New Orleans. Looks like a great idea, really depends on keeping the signal-to-noise ratio high.
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Thanks for this.
Would be nice if the actual damage was a part of the satellite imagery. Soon, perhaps.
I was at the Red Cross Houston center last night, and we were stealing Wi-Fi from next door... using Google Maps to help pinpoint people and get them rescued and so forth. Pretty neat how that goes.
We also used this website a little:
http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/katrina/KATRINA0000.HTM
By the way, f everyone playing the blame game right now. There will be plenty of time for that later.