Following my previous story on the grassroots movements, here are some of another developments.
Car Activities in Tohoku on Google Map: Google, Honda and Pioneer visualizes car activities in Tohoku by using gathered data from communication-enabled car navigation systems.
Blue lines stands for routes on which one or more motor vehicles have run on the previous day. On gray lines, no vehicle have run during the period. This helps you find which routes are available.
This website was launched on DropBox and shows you realtime public transit-related tweets sorted by railway operator and line. I suppose this is working on a keyword basis.
Area Map of Scheduled Power Outages[J]: This website shows you which rotation group your area belongs to at a glance and helps you find which hours of the day your area will be out of power. It’s based on the announcements by Tokyo Electric Power Company and tweets from the region.
Cookpad, a social network specializing in sharing meal ideas online, shows recipes for disaster survivors with limited foodstuffs[J].
ThumbApps scraps fee for their iPhone app (Tsubueki) that aggregates transit-related tweets. (original price: 230 yen) This helps you to find better routes and avoid traffic confusions.
More news to come.
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