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Disaster 2.0: Using GIS to cover misfortune-in-motion
Scott Gabriel Knowles | Thu, Nov 8th, 2007 | Category: Report | Tags: scott gabriel knowles, digital divide, sonic memorial project, geographic information system, mr. beller's neighborhood | 0
A firefighter in San Diego pulls out his blackberry and sees that the wind direction has changed and the ridgeline above him as about to burst into flames. A police helicopter crew in Houston observes flash flooding at an intersection and all traffic lights leading to the area change to red. The Mayor of Philadelphia clicks his way down a street from his computer screen in City Hall, counting abandoned houses. Hardly the stuff of science fiction, hazards mapping is rapidly moving the…
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