BBC Dimensions?
Posted by Steven | Filed under Web
Reading the BBC Research & Development blog earlier and saw the entry for BBC Dimensions and have been trying to get my head round what the point is? The premise is that you can overlay important events and places over your own current location, examples being overlaying the Gulf oil slick or the area of the Moon landings over your own geographical area so that you understand the scale of the event/place based on your familiarity with your own geographical location. I get it, it allows me to see how big the gulf oil slick was in relation to my own surrounding (see below for overlay on Edinburgh, it covers all of Edinburgh and some of Glasgow!).
So is the only purpose of the tool to help people understand scale? If so, the goal has been achieved! While that’s cool I guess, don’t you lose the context of the original event/place? As interesting as it is to see the overlay of the Gulf Oil slick over Edinburgh, I don’t see the point overlaying the route of the first moon walk on Edinburgh! Surely it’s more interesting to see the route in it’s original context rather than see Neil Armstrong walking over the Bank of Scotland headquarters! Maybe I’m just underwhelmed!
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