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The Twitter Weather Map is just a simple example to illustrate the hidden power and possible emergence that lies within social media, presence services and livestreams. It is a mashup using data from Twitter, a microblogging service which lets users post little text snippets about what they are doing or thinking.

One aspect of the IDIOM project is to develop and evaluate various visual interface approaches to access large data sets. You can find the more mature and tested ones on our portal Media Watch on Climate Change.

While the knowledge planet component using NASA World Wind is already online, we are working on similar interfaces to access and interact with other geospatial data. The following screenshots are made from prototypes using Processing, a Java based IDE and prototyping tool.