A Disaster Map ‘Wiki’ Is Born
I guess it's true: frustration is the spark for all invention. Scipionus.com, a giant website collecting Katrina related information on top of Google Maps, is the brainchild of Jonathan Mendez, a 24-year-old computer programmer living in Austin, Texas. Mendez says he grew frustrated combing message boards trying to find out if his family home -- the one his parents and brother had just fled from -- had been destroyed. This Wired article has more on Scipionus.
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