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#uksnow Map 2.0

It’s snowing around Europe at the moment and Twitter is trending with term #uksnow. Nothing special about it, besides the fact that’s is a beautiful orchestra of crowdsourced tweets that get aggregated to the #uksnow Map 2.0

http://uksnow.benmarsh.co.uk/

Why is this important?

While this is a single focus application, that will probably stop getting attention in a few days, there is no reason why anyone couldn’t go out and build generic mobile and web platforms that would enable such crowd-sourcing and trend aggregation around important public happenings.

We already have great open software for this, e.g. Ushahidi could be a great platform to build on top of.