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Visualize the Deepwater oil spil over your hometown
Cross-posted from here: http://www.reddit.com/r/somethingimade/comments/c8nji/i_made_an_oil_spill_map_visualizer_tool/
Move the oil spill over your hometown to get a better sense of its magnitude.
- mildavw 16y agoYou might want a label on your form field. I wasn't sure what to put in there to move the spill. "Location:" would work.
- gcr 16y agooh, I didn't make this, but I should have cited my source. Sorry. Cross-posted from here: http://www.reddit.com/r/somethingimade/comments/c8nji/i_made_an_oil_spill_map_visualizer_tool/ http://www.reddit.com/r/somethingimade/comments/c8nji/i_made...
- stdan27 16y agoFor anyone in the UK, this is more like "Visualise the Deepwater oil spill over your part of the country"
- Confusion 16y agoOr in the case of smaller countries like NL: visualize the oil spill over half your country.
- alex_c 16y agoEnough to cover one of the Great Lakes. Charming.
- electromagnetic 16y agoInterestingly enough the geolocation based off my IP actually puts me and virtually everywhere important around me (at least important to me) in the clear spots in the middle. Perspective = epic fail.
- jz 16y agoI thought the exact opposite. I'm in Chicago and the spill covers a 1/3 to 1/2 of Lake Michigan. After zooming out though, it clearly would cover Lake Erie or Lake Ontario. The thing that was put in perspective for me was the shear size of the Atlantic.
- spot 16y agoIsn't this a knockoff of http://paulrademacher.com/oilspill/ http://paulrademacher.com/oilspill/ ?
- btucker 16y agoWell the concept of projecting something onto a non-native locale for comparison purposes is not exactly groundbreaking. So I'm not sure it really matters which came first. Call me "old fashioned", but I actually find the simpler Google Maps based visualization more effective in conveying the scale.
- rodion_89 16y agothat one tells me that the google earth plugin is only for windows and mac, so its no good for me and some others here.
- ptolemy 16y agoit's not like many people care, we just all like to pretend we do and say how terrible it is
- bbgun 16y agoDrill baby, drill!... Yeah.
- bena 16y agoHey, I very nearly don't have to imagine it. I can practically live it. :D Type in Houma, LA, USA in the box next to "Move the Spill"
- jbrennan 16y agoIf only there were some giant atomic furnace beaming us down energy from above, maybe this wouldn't happen. If only.
- mortenjorck 16y agoThis is actually a great way to visualize the size of pretty much anything within the scale range of 10^-1 to 10^2 miles across. Nothing humanizes a distance more than seeing it directly in comparison to what you experience every day.
- aquateen 16y agoWhy didn't you type "1/10 to 100 miles"?
- JoachimSchipper 16y agoI think it's related to the great "powers of 10" film; see http://www.powersof10.com/ http://www.powersof10.com/.
- nostromo 16y agoI actually thought it was bigger... (perhaps from all the coverage) so I guess for me this website is relatively good news.
- angstrom 16y agoIsn't this just the tip of the iceberg? Much of it is in a suspend emulsion that doesn't neccessarily match the surface outline.
- nostromo 16y agoMaybe. Regular oil floats to the surface. I'm not sure about all this crude however.
- beezm 16y agoIt floats. Until it forms into little tarballs, and then sinks below the surface of the water. Combined with the "safe" dispersant BP is using to thin the oil, it helps the whole sinking process go faster. The size of this overlay is more so a depiction of the "core" spill. The slick above and below water extends to a much larger area, and also moves around daily.
- statenjason 16y agoCovers the Great Salt Lake, and most of the upper corner of Utah.
- felideon 16y agoWow, it would cover all of South Florida and reach to the Bahamas. (Enter Miami, FL to visualize.)
- s-phi-nl 16y agoDoes anyone know what causes the big clear spots in the middle?
- EvanK 16y agoI live in Houston, so I don't have to visualize...It IS sort of over my hometown.