Never mind the quality, just admire the pretty pictures

Never mind the quality, just admire the pretty pictures #ChrisMash, 3 rd December 2011 Karen Blakeman @karenblakeman [email_address] http://www.rba.co.uk/ This presentation is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License

#uksnow Tweets - http://uksnowmap.com/
9.55 am 2 nd 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
4 December 2011 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk

5/10? 04/12/11 www.rba.co.uk http://www.flickr.com/photos/taivasalla/3082478203/

This combined with 5 yard visibility blizzard might just earn a 4/10 from me!! 04/12/11 www.rba.co.uk

#uksnow Map - UK Snow Twitter Mashup (updated & improved version)
Taken at 8.49 am, Wednesday 1 st December 2010
04/12/11 www.rba.co.uk Guidance on how to assess heaviness of snow

http://www.livebus.org/reading/search/?q=Caversham 4 December 2011 Karen Blakeman www.rba.co.uk It’s using the wrong bus timetable database

04/12/11 www.rba.co.uk Caversham Liberation Front say SECEDE!!

http://traintimes.org.uk/map/tube/ 04/12/11 www.rba.co.uk

http://elgin.gov.uk/
04/12/11 www.rba.co.uk

04/12/11 www.rba.co.uk 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
04/12/11 www.rba.co.uk http://www.noradsanta.org/

04/12/11 www.rba.co.uk

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