{"id":156604,"date":"2012-01-26T13:25:33","date_gmt":"2012-01-26T09:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=156604"},"modified":"2012-01-26T13:25:33","modified_gmt":"2012-01-26T09:25:33","slug":"google-adds-emergency-alerts-to-google-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2012\/01\/26\/google-adds-emergency-alerts-to-google-maps.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Adds Emergency Alerts to Google Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has rolled out Public Alerts, a system for notifying the public about emergencies that will be integrated into Google Maps, <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2012\/01\/25\/public-alerts-google-maps\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Mashable<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The company announced Wednesday that it is integrating feeds from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Weather Service, and the US Geological Survey (USGS) into Google Maps.<\/p>\n<p>Providing a glimpse of how the program will work, Google offered the hypothetical example of a flood in Indiana. If you searched \u201cflood Indiana,\u201d you\u2019d see a Google Maps page offering links to local flood-related businesses. However, if there were a flood warning, Google would state there was a \u201cFlood Warning in Northern Indiana\u201d and offer a \u201cmore info\u201d link, which would lead to a page offering more details on the progress of the flood.<\/p>\n<p>Google is also aggregating all its public alerts on www.google.org\/publicalerts. The idea, according to Google, is to provide the public with better information to make decisions during a crisis. So far, however, the company doesn\u2019t appear to be integrating dynamic data from its Google+ social network (or other social networks, like Twitter and Facebook), which might yield even more relevant data.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has rolled out Public Alerts, a system for notifying the public about emergencies that will be integrated into Google Maps.<br \/>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":108627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[37346,10818,31046,37345],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}