Map of Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Pipelines, Platforms

Matthew Baker sent me this great looking map and some good resources you can use to make your own maps to track the oil spill and oil infrastructure.


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Matt was able to get the data from the following sources:

The pipeline and platform data:

The past week’s data came from these KML files:

http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/oilspill/

Is anyone creating some mapping on their own tracking the spill and the response?

Update: Looks like ESRI has a resource site up and running.

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