Quotes of the Week - 10/29/12 (Hurricane Sandy Edition)

The map below shows geotagged social media for southeastern Pennsylvania and parts of New Jersey. Some of the media may contain information on Hurricane Sandy.

This is the York Daily Record's "disclaimer" about its embedded Google Map that supposed to show content related to the hurricane. Clearly, someone knows better than to state the queries used filter out any other topics. The map is created via a service called Gathering Point, of which I'd not heard until today.

Gather paper maps and atlases in case GPS service is unavailable when you need it. 

This is one of the details in Number 1 on the list of preparations suggested in the Pelham (NH) Patch news artlcle titled

Awesome crisis maps & WMS are out there yet folks continue to tweet and RT [censored, but means "junky"] apps and maps, amazing hypefail by twitter trolls

Twitter comment separates online mapping wheat from chaffe.