Snow UK: how Ben Marsh is using Twitter to create data

It's a simple idea - but a lovely one. Get users to tweet the first half of their postcode, and rate the snow falling out of ten (0/10 for nothing, 5/10 for steady snow and 10/10 for arctic blizzard conditions). The result is developer Ben Marsh 's live snow map of the UK - #uksnow . And as snow falls across the UK today it gives us a lovely picture of where it's heaviest. "The map is a update of a version I put together last February for the snow we had then says Ben, who also created h ukholsmap.com/ and realtimetop40.com "It all came about after people started posting uksnow reports on twitter with their postcode and a score for how heavy the snowfall was. I built the map to visualise the tweets as they were reported. I've made a few updates to the original map and relaunched this version yesterday, hopefully in time for the incoming snow!" You can follow the tweets here - and let us know what you can do with the data they provide. Can you do something with this data? Flickr Please post your visualisations and mash-ups on our Flickr group or mail us at [email protected] • Get the A-Z of data • More at the Datastore directory • Follow us on Twitter