New tool helps disaster victims find shelter from the storm -- GCN

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Summary:

"The Federal Emergency Management Agency puts out information on hurricane shelters every 20 minutes during natural disasters through its application programming interface. Socrata decided during Hurricane Irma to input the information into its geographic information system for a new web-based platform called Find Shelter."

Link:

https://gcn.com/articles/2017/09/22/new-tool-helps-disaster-victims-find-shelter-from-the-storm.aspx

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Date tagged:

09/23/2017, 15:43

Date published:

09/23/2017, 11:43