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21/05
Contributed by Christina McCullough, Geospatial Analyst, Joint Forces Headquarters of Indiana, Joint Operations Center
The extent and impact of the BP's Oil Rig disaster is difficult to comprehend. All levels of government, the media and the public are frustrated by the lack of information and transparency. It is understandably difficult for one single entity to track and report on such a geographically far reaching disaster. ESRI has stood up an interactive GIS web-map site to help track the spill and document its impact on the Gulf Coast environment. This mash-up integrates Official federal and state data; News Media RSS feeds from Reuters, CNN, New York Times and others; Social Media (crowd-sourced) posts from YouTube, Twitter and Flickr, as well as other Crowd-Sourced Shared Content that can be input directly onto this site. The Shared Content layer is very interesting and simple, yet powerful.
The extent and impact of the BP's Oil Rig disaster is difficult to comprehend. All levels of government, the media and the public are frustrated by the lack of information and transparency. It is understandably difficult for one single entity to track and report on such a geographically far reaching disaster. ESRI has stood up an interactive GIS web-map site to help track the spill and document its impact on the Gulf Coast environment. This mash-up integrates Official federal and state data; News Media RSS feeds from Reuters, CNN, New York Times and others; Social Media (crowd-sourced) posts from YouTube, Twitter and Flickr, as well as other Crowd-Sourced Shared Content that can be input directly onto this site. The Shared Content layer is very interesting and simple, yet powerful.
To open up the interactive map click on this link: http://mapapps.esri.com/disasters/oil-spill/gulf-2010/index.html