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> Yossi Matias and others from his team immediately took action and within hours launched the first emergency OneBox on Google Search. It included emergency inf
by legitster 5y ago
> Yossi Matias and others from his team immediately took action and within hours launched the first emergency OneBox on Google Search. It included emergency information and a hand-drawn map of the fire’s location, which was manually updated in collaboration with a local TV station throughout the fire’s 77-hour duration.
I love this. Do the thing, and worry about doing it the right way later.
You would not believe the amount of multimillion dollar products or features started out as a Excel spreadsheets being mailed back and forth and manually input to something.
- mulmen 5y agoIs this really the best policy with time and safety critical situations? Wildfire maps already exist, why not link to that? Who cares if you get it right eventually if you get it wrong when it matters?
- hrrsn 5y agoThe article heavily implies there was no such map for this incident available at the time.