San Diego on Fire - Google to the rescue

October 25th, 2007

I’ve been watching this major disaster unfold with huge areas of San Diego being engulfed by flames.  The latest reports say the area destroyed is as big as Greater London - man thats nasty.   However, there is one good thing to come out of this, i’m now realising the true possibilities of Google Maps and mashups.  The picture here shows a great overlay to Google maps which for once is genuinely useful.  The mashup shows evacuation areas, safe houses and latest alerts which are also constantly updated via a Twitter feed.

This is a great service which i think is very helpful to those to be caught in this unfortunate situation.  The only thing it left me wondering though, is that if everything is on fire, how would they access the internet?

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