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Plotting the floods with multimedia in MyMaps |
| Published: July 27, 2007, 5:39 am |
| Tags: digital image, digital video animation, ltsfutures, socialisation, tags |
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Swathes of England devastated by floods, 24 hour news providing unrelenting images of flooded high streets and most of us left with only the vaguest of ideas of where this is all going on. Not now. Google Maps allow any individual to plot points on a map to tell a story. BBC Berkshire do this is tremendous style, illustrating the extent of this summer's flooding by plotting and bringing in their own TV and radio reports, user generated photographs and video, Environment Agency flood warnings and the magic of Google Maps' satellite imagery. I clicked the 'KML' button to open up Google Earth and have that same information sitting on my version of the planet. Importantly the main BBC Berkshire website gives a prominent link to their "interactive floods map", thus pushing this kind of thinking and technology further into the mainstream. [ Full article ] |
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