Planet example (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
So, everyone is talking about a balloon accident lately, but my Blogspire sent me a version of the report that blew my mind – hungarian project that maps all emergency events on the planet, from major traffic accidents to fly-by-objects.
Here is an example:
Vehicle Accident – Europe – Slovenia
EDIS Number: VI-20120823-36303-SVN Date / time: 23/08/2012 14:30:44 [UTC] Event: Vehicle Accident Area: Europe Country: Slovenia State/County: Capital City Location: [About 6 miles south of Ljubljana] Number of Deads: 4 person(s) Number of Injured: 28 person(s) Number of Infected: N/A Number of Missing: N/A Number of Affected:…
via: hisz.rsoe.hu
and they have another project, mapping all grobal warming events.
Both of them are a great addition to a growing list of real-time global dashboards of differenti aspects of the Planet. I’ve been collecting them for a while now, and it seems it’s time to create a dedicated page for them.
- Global Emergency Dashboard
- Global Warming Events
- Gapminder
- World Freedom Atlas
- Worldometers
- Fact Browser
- MarketMap
- NewsMap
- List of ongoing military conflicts
Please feel free to submit any dashboard you know of that I’ve missed in the comments.
Related articles
- Hot air balloon crashes in Slovenia killing 4 (kansascity.com)
- Hot-air balloon crashes in Slovenia, four killed – Reuters (reuters.com)
- Slovenian balloon crash kills four people and injures 28 more (guardian.co.uk)
- The attraction and risks of hot air balloons (sacbee.com)