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AlertMap - Emergencies All Over the World
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on Tuesday August 15, @09:04AM
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Very Spatial links to AlertMap, an hungarian mashup provided by the Havaria Emergency and Disaster Information Services, which offers a mashup for many types of emergencies, ranging from biochemical, nuclear, volcanic activity, extreme weather and much more. The identification of an event is very fast with the use of GLIDE (GLobal IDEntifier number). Update: 07/05/08 01:05 GMT by S : AlertMap now uses worldkit, with GeoRSS as a new feature.
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