Starting in March 2014 Tomnod took images gathered by DigitalGlobe satellites and offered them to the public for viewing and identification in the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 . Over 8 million people used the site to look for signs of wreckage , oil spills and other objects of interest . Prior to this search effort Tomnod had 10,000 contributors for other projects on the site . Users could tag images which are later reviewed with algorithms . The site was down on the 11th and 12 March due to high traffic ( 100,000 visits per minute ) . It was reported that over 650,000 " objects of interest " had been tagged by users on Tomnod and that their maps had been viewed over 98 million times . Originally Tomnod had included 24,000 square kilometres of satellite imagery for users to search . Later they included maps of 14,000 km2 of the Straits of Malacca and the Indian Ocean as new information was released
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
Malaysia Airlines Flight 370
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