Happy Super Fat Tuesday

Posted by Dustyn Palmer on February 5th, 2008 filed in Creative Cartography, Maps, Tools

Here’s a cool mashup to coincide with today’s primaries. Google & Twitter have teamed up to spatially relate people’s Twitter messages (by using SMS) pertaining to who they voted for, problems with polling stations, and pretty much whatever people had to say about their voting experience. I’ve had the mashup on for a while and it’s been pretty interesting seeing what people had to say. SMS is an interesting way to collect data and I would like to see it used more in the realm of data collection. Cell phones are an untapped market for data submission and this is a great way to get data with spatial variables.