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Never mind the quality, just admire the pretty pictures
#ChrisMash, 3rd December 2011
Karen Blakeman@karenblakeman
karen.blakeman@rba.co.ukhttp://www.rba.co.uk/
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#uksnow Tweets - http://uksnowmap.com/
• 9.55 am 2nd February 2009
• Google Earth & Twitter
• hashtag #uksnow
• Tweeters asked to include first half of post code and give the snowfall marks out of ten e.g. #uksnow RG4 3/10
• Potential quality issues:– location of tweeters
– awareness of how to enter uksnow details
– uksnow boredom
– different perceptions of heaviness of snow
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/taivasalla/3082478203/
5/10?
This combined with 5 yard visibility blizzard might just earn a 4/10 from me!!
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#uksnow Map - UK Snow Twitter Mashup (updated & improved version)
Taken at 8.49 am, Wednesday 1st December 2010
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Guidance on how to assess heaviness of snow
http://www.livebus.org/reading/search/?q=Caversham
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It’s using the wrong bus timetable
database
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Caversham Liberation Front say SECEDE!!
http://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/
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http://elgin.gov.uk/
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When are road works not road works?
When they are classified as Network Rail bridge works!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/rbainfo/5911913498/ CC 3.0 Attribution Non-commercial
Who can we trust?
An organisation that is authoritative A data source that is trustworthy, accurate, reliable and we know
to be true
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http://www.noradsanta.org/
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