Occasionally I see something on the internet that just blows me away. Incredibly useful. Very cool. I have looked at the GoogleMaps function several times, and have even toyed with a nonprofit startup idea that lets people in towns put their stories about the history of the town right onto a map of the town (think of uploading your great-grandparents pictures and a picture of their house in 1876 and mapping it to where that space is now.) This is cool stuff. This is neat stuff, that can augment and enrich our lives, and help our children to understand who was here before, how our towns and countryside used to look, and who makes up the melting pot of our culture.
But that's not what I'm talking about today. Today I want to talk about what Googlemaps is doing right now. Check it out. A map showing the fires in southern California, updated constantly.
Wonderful stuff. Thank you Google.
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