Disaster Mapping

New Orleans, unknown photographer.

Thanks go to 64 Baker Street for putting this post up on her blog. It’s about the use of Google Maps in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. I hadn’t been overwhelmed by the possibilities of the Google API to do anything that Google weren’t already doing, but this proves me 100% wrong.

I’m not writing anything about whether or not cutting the budget for maintaining the dykes, when FEMA had identified it at the second biggest disaster waiting to happen was a Bad Idea or not because other people woulddoitmuchbetterthanme.