{"id":3583,"date":"2005-09-03T11:31:57","date_gmt":"2005-09-03T11:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/blog\/?p=3583"},"modified":"2010-01-18T00:01:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T06:01:48","slug":"a-disaster-map-wiki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/2005\/09\/a-disaster-map-wiki\/","title":{"rendered":"A Disaster map “Wiki”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Of all of the websites tracking the Katrina disaster, surely one of the most remarkable is Scipionus.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Visitors swoop down over a map of the Gulf Coast that’s awash in hundreds of red teardrops, each denoting information about specific geographical points in the area. That’s pretty amazing in itself, but there’s more: All of the information on the map has been provided by ordinary citizens, most of whom presumably have come to the site in search of information on the flood themselves.<\/p>\n

Since Scipionus.com<\/a> launched Wednesday, it has become a giant visual “wiki” page, attracting tens of thousands of visitors who are collaborating in creating a public document of astonishing detail<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(via wired news<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Of all of the websites tracking the Katrina disaster, surely one of the most remarkable is Scipionus.com. Visitors swoop down over a map of the Gulf Coast that’s awash in hundreds of red teardrops, each denoting information about specific geographical points in the area. That’s pretty amazing in itself, but there’s more: All of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,14],"tags":[4935,4949],"class_list":["post-3583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apps","category-usa","tag-apps","tag-map"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9700,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions\/9700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}