The Wall Street Journal has created a way for New Yorkers to interact with the location-based social media app Foursquare to find the nearest NYC hurricane evacuation center.
This Foursquare implementation is simple yet effective, letting users zoom in or out on an interactive map, which reveals a list of nearby evacuation centers. Click on one of the evacuation centers on the left column, and the map simultaneously zooms to that center, showing exactly where it’s located.
If you live in the New York area and you still haven’t figured out if you’re in one of the evacuation zones (wake up, there’s a hurricane on its way!), here’s an interactive app we’ve embedded that invites you to enter an address and it shows the corresponding evacuation zone and the nearest evacuation center.
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Posted on Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:22:11 +0000 at http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/nBUxp8eahO4/
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This Foursquare implementation is simple yet effective, letting users zoom in or out on an interactive map, which reveals a list of nearby evacuation centers. Click on one of the evacuation centers on the left column, and the map simultaneously zooms to that center, showing exactly where it’s located.
If you live in the New York area and you still haven’t figured out if you’re in one of the evacuation zones (wake up, there’s a hurricane on its way!), here’s an interactive app we’ve embedded that invites you to enter an address and it shows the corresponding evacuation zone and the nearest evacuation center.
More About: evacuation zones, foursquare, Hurricane Irene, MapFor more Social Media coverage:Follow Mashable Social Media on TwitterBecome a Fan on FacebookSubscribe to the Social Media channelDownload our free apps for Android, Mac, iPhone and iPad
Posted on Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:22:11 +0000 at http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/nBUxp8eahO4/
Comments: http://mashable.com/2011/08/27/hurricane-irene-foursquare/#comments