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Mapping the Mass Exodus from Florida by Land, Sea, and Sky
- QAPereo 9y agoIt's a bit frightening to see that concentration of communities which may be unable to evacuate right in the TB area, where the storm is coming.
- CapitalistCartr 9y agoYeah, try being here. The view is interesting.
- QAPereo 9y agoI wish you the best, and I hope you and yours make it through totally unscathed.
- Theodores 9y agoGoogle, Apple, Facebook and the telcos would have a good idea as to who has actually evacuated and where to. It would be very interesting to see that data, on a map, anonymised to a heat map. It is not clear where people are supposed to evacuate to, the reality would be most interesting, maybe it would just reflect a general heatmap of where people lived. I am sure the NSA could pull up this information too but I don't imagine that town planning times and disaster emergency planners have access to accurate information. How do you find out who lives somewhere and where they are now? The Googles of this world know this information.
- tqkxzugoaupvwqr 9y agoIn general, a person’s home can be identified by tracking the movement of their mobile phone. At night it is at rest when the person sleeps. Alternatively, turning the phone off and a few hours later back on in the same location. If you use maps you can correlate it with businesses and homes. Governments could ask telcos for this data (a log of when and where which phones connected to a cell). Or just the general workload of cell towers compared to previous weeks gives you a rough estimation of where phones are and are not. You could also ask for broadband activity and compare it to previous activity. If people evacuated, their bandwidth usage should have flatlined.