Go read this report about how researchers used Google Maps to track the invasion of Ukraine
by Emma Roth from The Verge - All Posts on (#5WJZ4)
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge This report from The Washington Post details how a team of researchers used a combination of Google Maps and radar imagery to track the movement of Russian troops, tipping them off to an invasion of Ukraine before the general public got word of the situation.
According @googlemaps, there is a "traffic jam" at 3:15 in the morning on the road from Belgorod, Russia to the Ukrainian border. It starts *exactly* where we saw a Russian formation of armor and IFV/APCs show up yesterday.
- Dr. Jeffrey Lewis (@ArmsControlWonk) February 24, 2022
Someone's on the move. pic.twitter.com/BYyc5YZsWL
When Dr. Jeffrey Lewis, a professor at California's Middlebury Institute of International Studies, noticed particularly bad traffic at 3:15AM near the...