Tweets turned into flood maps that could help save lives

Megan Rowling reports for Reuters from Barcelona about mapping floods through tweets.

Spontaneous tweets about major floods are being turned into a mapping tool that could be used by emergency services and disaster response teams to save lives and provide aid, Dutch researchers said.

When a crisis strikes, people increasingly find out about it from social media, as individuals and groups take to the internet to spread the word.

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