Mumbai Bomb Blasts

A few web pages place the locations of yesterday’s bomb blasts in Mumbai, India (which you may know as Bombay) on Google Maps: there is this one (via Matt) and this one (via Ogle Earth); the latter is a KML (Google Earth) file viewed through Google Maps. There is also this blog entry which uses a “sequential” mashup that I couldn’t get to work in my browser (via Google Maps Mania).

In all cases, the satellite layer is used and indeed has to be used: Google has no street data for India, which makes placing everything somewhat harder for those of us unfamiliar with the area.

I’ll link to other maps of the blasts as I’m made aware of them.

Posted on Wednesday, July 12, 2006 at 8:28 AM
Categories: Current Events, Hacks & Mashups

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Curious as to what browser(version) you are using, so that I can troubleshoot. I tested in both IE and Mozilla. Also, maybe the instructions might not be clear. The map is suppose to center on to next bomb blast location when you close the pop up window above the marker.

Regards,
Virender Ajmani

Virender Ajmani | 07/12/2006 at 4:17 PM | #

I have posted links to two maps from news papers (Le Monde and Guardian Unlimited).
“Le Monde”: http://www.lemonde.fr/web/infog/0,47-0@2-3216,54-794544@51-794495,0.html
Guardian:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/graphic/0,,1817989,00.html
Those two maps are among the first released, as far as I know, in the very hours after the blasts.
By the way, thanks for the list

cotiniere | 07/12/2006 at 4:34 PM | #

I use Safari; to be fair, JavaScript quirks usually mean problems for various Google Maps hacks on that browser.

[TypeKey Profile Page] Jonathan Crowe | 07/12/2006 at 5:41 PM | #

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