Reply #9: They might be about to knock down the numbers a bit [View All]

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but we can come up with a close estimate of survival & deathetc.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4208070.stm

Those who have access to the internet within the affected area are posting blog entries and photographs, and sites like Craigslist are being used to help people locate relatives.

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We can see this in the way the net is being used to help those affected find out what has happened to their homes and neighbourhoods, and the imaginative way they are using new web-based mapping tools to do this.

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The people of New Orleans want more, and it seems to have passed to the web community to provide the sort of detailed information that they are after.

For example Kathryn Cramer, a blogger from New York state, has pulled together a selection of before and after images which show details of the damage, while another blogger, Tim Holtt, has built his page so that moving a mouse over each image swaps between "before" and "after".

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This is not just a frivolous use of new toys by geeks with too much time on their hands. These experiments can help people find out whether their house is under water, which streets are accessible and what has happened to their neighbourhood.

The map at http://www.Scipionus.com is probably the best example, but there are many more.