Snow has come to London:
Those of you on Twitter may be seeing tweets like this in your stream:
#uksnow SM2 4/10
What the heck's that all about? Simple. It's a crowd-sourced method of tracking snow levels across the country that came into its own back in February, when the really heavy snows hit. All those tweets are being compiled onto a map to give a visual and rapidly-updated picture of what the snowfall across the country looks like. Neat, huh?
So that tweet is made up of:
- #uksnow - the hashtag that allows identification of relevant tweets
- SM2 - the first half of my postcode, allowing geolocation of the information
- 4/10 - a measure of the heaviness of the snowfall, where 0 is none at all and 10 would be a whiteout...
A neat little mash-up by Ben Marsh.
I'm not gretting the second vid, Adam.
Anyway, Merry Christmas to you.
That may be because there's only one vid… ;-)