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October 30, 2012 09:10 pm GMT
As Hurricane-battered East Coasters turn to online crises maps for weather updates and evacuation notices, we should all take a moment to give kudos to the spreadsheet nerds who advocated opening up the very government data reserves that now fuel these online tools.From Google's hurricane hub to the The New York Times evacuation map, life-saving online tools draw from a recent and relatively underfunded set of government programs that release information in ways conducive to third-party developers.
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Like Hurricane Maps? Thank Open Government Data Nerds
As Hurricane-battered East Coasters turn to online crises maps for weather updates and evacuation notices, we should all take a moment to give kudos to the spreadsheet nerds who advocated opening up the very government data reserves that now fuel these online tools.From Google's hurricane hub to the The New York Times evacuation map, life-saving online tools draw from a recent and relatively underfunded set of government programs that release information in ways conducive to third-party developers.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/w5w9MeKFl4Y/
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