Off the Map blogger Sean Gorman and friends have taken Chinese government pollution data and made a mashup map of pollution levels in the areas surrounding Olympic venues in Beijing. Code to embed the map here. ...full story at Global Voices
from Global Voices on Thu, Aug 07 2008
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