About
This interactive map, built using the ArcGIS API for JavaScript, allows you to investigate live content from social networks to learn more about the event.
Application
This application is powered by ArcGIS Server.
ArcGIS Online Basemaps
This application includes basemaps from ArcGIS Online including:
- Streetmap—The ArcGIS Online World Street basemap presents highway-level data for the world and street-level data for North America, Europe, Southern Africa, several countries in Asia, and more.
- Satellite Imagery—The ArcGIS Online World Imagery basemap presents satellite imagery for the world and high-resolution imagery for the United States, Great Britain, and hundreds of cities around the world.
- Topographic Map—The ArcGIS Online World Topographic basemap (aka "the community basemap") includes boundaries, cities, water features, physiographic features, parks, landmarks, transportation, and buildings.
Layers
- Ushahidi: This public content from Ushahidi is added to the site by directly accessing the Libya Crisis Map service through the Ushahidi API . The Ushahidi platform allows anyone to gather distributed data via SMS, e-mail or the web and visualize it on a map or timeline. The feed aggregates information from the public for use in crisis response.
- YouTube Videos: The videos are added to the application using the YouTube API. The YouTube data API allows you to request videos given a latitude and longitude position along with a search radius and keywords. From here we parse the response from YouTube and use the coordinates with each returned record to draw the point and incorporate the results into the ArcGIS API for JavaScript InfoWindow.
- Tweets: The Twitter API is used to identify tweets that match a specified query and area. In this case, only the tweets that return a coordinate value within the current visible map extent are added to the map. The Twitter API sends the results of the query back to the application as JSON which is easily incorporated into the ArcGIS API for JavaScript.
- Flickr: The Flickr API is used to identify Flickr photos that match search terms and a collection of other parameters identified in the Flickr API help pages. The Flickr API sends the results of the query back to the application as JSON which is easily incorporated into the ArcGIS API for JavaScript.
Web Developers
The Web Mapping APIs are an efficient way to utilize mapping, geocoding, and geoprocessing services provided by ArcGIS Server and ArcGIS Online. Get started with the ArcGIS Web Mapping APIs to create your own applications.
