Shoothil, a data visualisation firm based in Shrewsbury, has built a live flood warning map that uses data supplied by the UK Environment Agency.
The Environment Agency has a nationwide network of monitoring stations, that issues flood warnings and alerts. Shoothill's map takes all the alerts from the last 15 minutes and lays them over a Bing map.
By: Mark Brown, Edited by: Duncan Geere
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via Wired.co.uk
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-07/09/flood-map
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