Declan Butler, reporter This is the personal blog of Declan Butler, a senior reporter at Nature. All views expressed here are mine, and not those of Nature. Contact me at d.butler@nature.com

April 16, 2006

Easter avian flu map update

Filed under: avian influenza,Blogging,Distributed computing,GIS,Neglected diseases,Open data,Semantic web,Social bookmarking,Standards,Web services — admin @ 9:35 pm


Map update

This weekend’s update adds a minor change to make it easier to see the latest human cases and animal outbreaks. The initial screen will by default only show — in yellow — those events that have occured since the last map update (see screenshots below). Download the new maps directly to Google Earth by clicking here. For a more detailed explanation of the new maps, click here.
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April 6, 2006

Avian flu map weekly update

Filed under: avian influenza,GIS,Google Earth — admin @ 6:37 pm


Last weekend’s scheduled weekly update to the flu maps finally went up tonight, after I found the bug that was causing export errors in the update. Download map directly here.

This week’s update, including the first bird case in Scotland, will go up this weekend.

Featured image from this week: Egypt
(Circles = animal outbreaks; triangles = human cases)
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