Chinese farmers and herders have transformed 400k km2 of cropland and verdant prairie into new deserts.
Tag: disaster
Sichuan Earthquake Imagery
at the same time the chinese government doesn’t allow mapping services to have satellite images for their sites. make up your minds, politburo.
Cougar Ace salvage
Out of the darkness, a rumble grows. The water begins to vibrate. Suddenly, the prow of a massive ship splits the fog. Its steel hull rises 7 stories above the water and stretches 200m back into the night. A 15683-horsepower engine roars through the holds, pushing 55328 tons of steel. Crisp white capital letters — COUGAR ACE — spell the ship’s name above the ocean froth. A deep-sea car transport, its 14 decks are packed with 4703 new Mazdas bound for North America. Estimated cargo value: $103M.
Socal Wildfires
On Tuesday, we saw a huge increase in traffic on Google Maps. The traffic spike was so large that our servers thought they were being DoS attacked. It turned out that the additional traffic was due to 100Ks of people constantly refreshing maps about the terrible wildfires in Southern California. Several news outlets and individuals had used the My Maps feature to create maps that tracked the spread of the fire and included information on evacuation alerts and evacuation center locations. (For those of you who haven’t been reading US news, these wildfires scorched 2K km2 of land and caused 1M people to be evacuated from their homes)
the wildfires, behind the scenes
Life After People
as usual nyc is depicted. if someone edits this show and cuts out all the breaks and the moronic repetitions i’ll watch it
Newsrooms use Google Maps
I talked with an assistant chief with the Los Angeles Police Department who said that ‘we had your map up at the emergency options center’
Mapping the wildfires
Large areas of California have been devastated by wildfires fueled by high winds and extremely dry conditions. The 2 largest blazes – named Witch and Harris – are to the north and south east of the city of San Diego. Use the map below to find out more.
This is creating a lot of excitement here.
Lunar Ark
Kilian Engel, an instructor at the International Space University who is involved in post-doomsday research, said the lunar archive is actually Plan B.
Berkshire flood map
The BBC Berkshire interactive flood map takes the best photos and video sent in by you, alongside reports from our correspondents around the county and flood warning information from the Environment Agency.
mymaps at work in an emergency
The World Without Us
Days after our disappearance, pumps keeping Manhattan’s subways dry would fail, tunnels would flood, soil under streets would sluice away and the foundations of towering skyscrapers built to last for centuries would start to crumble.
2013-10-10:
Gregor J. Rothfuss 