{"id":6323,"date":"2013-10-23T11:30:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T00:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/?p=6323"},"modified":"2013-10-24T19:36:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T08:36:34","slug":"keeping-tabs-on-australian-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/keeping-tabs-on-australian-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Tabs on Australian Fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At present, in Australia fires are tracked on a state and territory level which makes it hard to get a consolidated view at a national level to see what is going on. This might not be a big deal if your family, friends and properties are largely located in one state or territory but if they are interstate then that can present a challenge.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Google released an <a title=\"Australian Crisis Map | Google\" href=\"http:\/\/google.org\/crisismap\/australia\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Crisis Map <\/a>which fills this gap rather nicely by aggregating data from the various websites and plotting them on a familiar Google Maps interface. At the moment, only fires are listed but I would expect other types of crises will be added over time.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, if you want the most recent information the best place to go is directly to the authority&#8217;s website as there could be delays in using Google&#8217;s solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At present, in Australia fires are tracked on a state and territory level which makes it hard to get a consolidated view at a national level to see what is going on. This might not be a big deal if your family, friends and properties are largely located in one state or territory but if &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/keeping-tabs-on-australian-fires\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2268],"class_list":["post-6323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-google","item-wrap"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mingersoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}