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<DIV><FONT color=#003366>During the Samoa Simulation, we
discussed how Twitter feeds from <U>ALERTSsp</U> where imported into
Openlayers as an Overlay. Since at the time we didnt have a solution to
feed automatically, I converted manually the twitter feed
into an RSS xml file.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#003366></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#003366>I finally found the solution to show a twitter
page as an xml file. The syntax for <STRONG>ALERTSsp</STRONG> Twitter page is
</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#003366>either</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" color=#003366 size=2 face=Verdana><A
href="http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_name=ALERTSsp">http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline.xml?screen_name=ALERTSsp</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" color=#003366 size=2>or</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt" color=#003366 size=2 face=Verdana><A
href="http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/ALERTSsp.xml">http://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/ALERTSsp.xml</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#003366></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#003366>A simple Parser could then convert Twitter
Xml file to an RSS feed. But one problem subsist after converting to
an RSS file. In the Twitter feeds, the geographic coordinates are generally
converted to a place name. The following article adresses the subject of
geolocation on Twitter feeds.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><A
href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mapping_geolocation_and_the_future_of_scalable_disaster_response.php"><FONT
color=#003366 size=2
face=Verdana>http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/mapping_geolocation_and_the_future_of_scalable_disaster_response.php</FONT></A><FONT
color=#003366> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#003366></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#003366>Mapping viewers in Ushahidi and Sahana platforms
integrate information from various sources and classifiy the
information by categories. Follows a good example of the possibilities with
these mapping viewers.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#003366></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#003366>For the Van / Ercis Earthquake, Al Jazeera, with
the support of SBTF, rapidly prepared </FONT><FONT color=#003366>an
Online Map based on the Ushahidi platform. This is presented in the
following article : </FONT><A
href="http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2011/11/03/crowdmapping-the-van-earthquake-in-turkey-with-al-jazeera/"><FONT
color=#003366 size=2
face=Verdana>http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2011/11/03/crowdmapping-the-van-earthquake-in-turkey-with-al-jazeera/</FONT></A></DIV>
<DIV>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT color=#003366 size=2 face=Verdana>We can see
the <FONT face=Arial>Van / Ercis Earthquake </FONT>Map Viewer at the
following url link : </FONT><A href="https://vandeprem.crowdmap.com/"><FONT
color=#003366 size=2
face=Verdana>https://vandeprem.crowdmap.com/</FONT></A><BR><FONT
color=#003366><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ccffff"></FONT></FONT></P>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT color=#003366><FONT face=Verdana><FONT
size=2><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ccffff">Translation of the categories on
the map<BR></FONT>yardim
noktalari Help
Points<BR>ihtiyaclar Needs<BR>kurtarma
calismalari Rescue
Operations</FONT></FONT></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV>
<P style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0cm"><FONT color=#000080><EM><FONT face=Verdana><FONT
size=2><SPAN>Pierre Béland</SPAN> </FONT></FONT></EM></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#c0c0c0></FONT><FONT color=#c0c0c0> </FONT> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<HR color=#b5c4df SIZE=1>
<DIV>Mike Dupont 2011-12-04 06:02:35 </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2>
<DIV>> 2. OPEN: the links to twitter are like this :</DIV>
<DIV>> <A href="http://twitter.com/#!ALERTSsp"><FONT
face=Verdana>http://twitter.com/#!ALERTSsp</FONT></A> and not like this :</DIV>
<DIV>> <A
href="https://twitter.com/#!/ALERTSsp/status/142723833089114112"><FONT
face=Verdana>https://twitter.com/#!/ALERTSsp/status/142723833089114112</FONT></A></DIV>
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