Whistle-blowing with Google Maps (8 Ways to Sunday)

Whistle-blowing with Google Maps

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by Adam at 1:20 AM on April 8, 2005

Dave Shea is using the new satellite imagery from Google Maps to illustrate the environmental impact of forest clear-cutting near his home town in British Columbia.

A lot of people are already making very interesting use of this new Google offering. It will be interesting to see how much of this armchair activism springs up as part of that.

Updates

4/8/2005 @ 7:48 AM — Links to some of those interesting things people are doing with Google Maps. Matthew Haughey used the satellite images to create an annotated Flickr photo called “My childhood, seen by Google Maps” (via). Some clever satires of the mapping service have also emerged.
4/11/2005 @ 11:45 AM — SF Gate columnist Mark Morford is pretty freaked out by the satellite imagery from Google Maps. But that doesn’t mean he can’t still get a weirdly voyeuristic thrill from it. An interesting editorial about the attraction/repulsion reaction some people have to this kind of technology.

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[…] And speaking of activism, I came across this post from 8 Ways to Sunday about a Canadian Dave Shea using Google Maps (which I have yet to play with) to “illustrate the environmental impact of forest clear-cutting near his home town in British Columbia.” Go get ‘em, Dave!Technorati tags:environmentalism, activism, google mapsThe Green Guide - Informing Today’s Choices, Shaping Tomorrow’s World […]

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