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With relatives in southern California, I’m a bit distracted following the paths of the wildfires and determing which have been handles and which run rampant.

CenterNetworks post “Firestorm 2.0″ investigates how the most popular social media services are being used to report and inform. What Allen found is that together, the sites form a fairly complete view of the crisis in real-time, but they are without anything to pull them together. The thought of a “crisiscenters” to properly aggregate this data is a start one.

For me the google maps mashups prove to be the most useful from a top level down perspective.

• The LA Times has a Google Maps mashup showing where the fires are burning
• Another mashup of San Diego allowing GPS and coordinate submissions

Any sites that trump those listed at CenterNetworks? Or is anyone already aggregating the data?

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