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Mash-ups, floods and user-gen content

This summe’s bad weather has prompted some helpful souls to create an interesting API mash-up (Flood 2.0) bringing together data from Google maps, news sources, BBC radio reports, flickr flood photos and youtube flood video footage. The result is a really interesting example of how free content can be put to purposeful use. And shows how the nature of maps is rapidly changing.

August 13, 2007 Posted by | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

   

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