Fundamentally a citizen’s reporting tool of events such as illegal waste disposal, air pollution events, water contamination, chemical accidents/smells, flaring, explosions and fires at industry facilities, pipeline leaks, natural disasters etc.
The map will start with Houston, but with the potential scalability of Texas and to all of the United States.
This tool will have a website and app.
It will source social media postings for news events. Modeled after Live Universal Awareness Map: https://syria.liveuamap.com/. With news updates to the map such as facebook live videos, instagram photos, and tweets.
There will be icons on the map that reflect different types of events. Rollover effect will open up sidebar with tweet, video, posted photo etc.
All reports will have a filtering system in place to avoid irrelevant content being posted.
Hazardous Environmental Events