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Oil Spill Google Interactive Maps and Images
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by comoms | November 12, 2007 at 09:12 am
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I found these Google Maps of the Bay Area oil Spill for those who are interested.
For more on the story, there is comprehensive coverage and pictures on Now Public on these two posts.
http://www.nowpublic.com/environment/san-francisco-bay-oil-spill-spreads by kate
and here
http://www.nowpublic.com/emergencies/container-ship-hits-bay-bridge by Rob Peters
What is NowPublic?
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at 09:19 on November 12th, 2007
comoms, thanks for posting this - the the range of uses for google maps evolves daily, tremendous.
at 09:28 on November 12th, 2007
Definatly, these maps are amazing. They had one for the SD fires too. I beleive that this is where search will lead eventually.
at 10:09 on November 12th, 2007
The SD fires was ground breaking in the use of Google maps (see here for the story on NowPublic). And yes, searching anchored on maps and geolocatting is the direction we are heading.
at 10:37 on November 12th, 2007
I have tagged all the Bay Area Oil Spill stories see here to follow all the coverage.
at 10:44 on November 12th, 2007
Wow! Great Idea to tag them all together. I link to that page from my blog and spread the word.
at 10:57 on November 12th, 2007
Awesome!
That's what we've started doing for developing ongoing stories. See here for more info.
at 16:19 on November 12th, 2007
comoms, good stuff.
Google Maps have already been used to search for people. Some brilliant programmer gots lost on his boat a while ago and tons of other programmers went to action using Google Maps mashups to try and find him. I think they used them for Steve Fosset as well.
at 19:11 on November 12th, 2007
Thanks. I heard about the Steve Fosset search but I did not know about the programer.
Yes they are not only fun to look at but very usefull, I guess for bad as well unfortunatley, but I can only imagine how much more we will be able to do with these maps as well as things like google earth in the near future.
at 22:02 on November 12th, 2007
Thanks everyone for adding these great images.