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MIT is crowdsourcing hurricane flood maps in Florida

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People in Broward County, Florida have one more map to rely on this weekend as Hurricane Irma passes through the state. MIT has launched RiskMap, a crowdsourced platform meant to track and map flooding by relying on peoples social media reports, as a pilot project. The countys residents can update the map by contacting its Twitter DM, Telegram and Facebook Messenger chatbots. Theyll then have to submit their location, a description of its conditions and a photo showing its current ……
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