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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