With each new natural or man-made disaster, technologies companies work hard to share valuable data and visualizations. I'm trained, having been in the GIS media for many years, to expect an e-mail from Esri, for example, that shares a social media map and perhaps another visualization. That e-mail went out this past week related to the Nepal earthquake, as both GIS User and GIS Cafe confirm.
Wood brick temple before the earthquake, as shown
in the video.
I find these and similar maps have begun to "all look the same" to me and rarely help me understand the underlying story, geographically or otherwise. Perhaps that's why when the Columbia Journalism Review suggested I watch a three minute Facebook video to understand the situation, I did. The more embeddable YouTube version is below.
