Phil Graham sent this along, it is fairly useful and interesting
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Having trouble posting. This is useful and interesting from Forbes ************************************************************ http://www.forbes.com/technology/2005/09/02/hurricane-google-map- rescue-cx_d e_0902google.html?partner=yahootix
"We're seeing a lot of images from New Orleans that lack context," says Shawn McBride, a phone switch technician from Spokane, Wash., who has been using satellite photos from the Google Earth service to track flooding and analyze damage to neighborhoods. "It's impossible to tell from the outside how things are."
But along comes Google.
One Web site, www.scipionus.com, is combating the confusion by encouraging users to annotate a Google Map of New Orleans with information about specific locations. Collectively, the community is creating a collaborative map Wikipedia. Anyone with something to add can enter a street address and leave a marker on the map at that location, providing a few lines of text about conditions at that spot. "Never flooded, typical wind damage, passable street 8-31-05," reads one tag. "Trey and April's We are OK ppl," reports another.