Crises News Alerts

[CeciliaHinga]

From tenfour-archive created by caharding: ushahidi/tenfour-archive#1104

• [ ] As an admin I want alerts about emergencies in my area
• [ ] As an admin I want to be author a check in from a crises alert
• [ ] Compose a check in based off of a list of suggested crises happening my area

Spec: We should look into incorporating data from these providers:

• NC4
• IJET
• https://www.worldaware.com/
• UK Govt. Digital services. Mobile alerts and Country specific alerts

Proof of Concept Spec

The requirements is for a the most basic proof of concept service. These are general pointers. Actual implementation is at discretion of developer.

• [ ] Deployed on Amazon Lambda
• [ ] Single exposed function getActiveCrisesForUserLocation or similar
• [ ] Function takes a single LatLng
• [ ] Function returns list of all active crises for that location name, category, date_created, date_updated, geo
• [ ] Service maintains table of crises
• [ ] This table is for now manually populated with crises
• [ ] This table will in future store active crises from feeds
• [ ] Function performs point-in-polygon operation for user location against all active crisis
• [ ] Active is defined as a crisis where date_ended is null
• [ ] Not worried about final app implementation at the moment. We can consume service with simple test app.
• [ ] Lambda service to be implemented in Node.js

[CeciliaHinga]

@rowasc I think the first task in this is to implement a job to start pulling in the emergency alerts into the tenfour database

[CeciliaHinga]

@justinscherer so far, only what is listed above.

We are in the process of scoping this.

[CeciliaHinga]

@mackers are all of these enterprise providers that we need to contact to get access to? I can't find any public APIs for any of the listed sources

• https://www.worldaware.com/products-and-services/platform-and-products-overview/apis
• https://www.nc4.com/ For IJET I can't find the right url at all , it seems like they merged with WorldAware https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180625005227/en/iJET-International-Relaunches-WorldAware

[CeciliaHinga]

I think the first task in this is to implement a job to start pulling in the emergency alerts into the tenfour database

@mackers totally. Looking into this . Fetching has probably the following types of components

• an alert fetch interface common to all and implementation for each source
• a standard class that saves them and logs their source
• jobs that run :) now looking into the sources to understand formats

[CeciliaHinga]

What sources are we looking at for the alerts? Are there specific feeds I can have a look at to suss out formatting, structure, etc. ?

[CeciliaHinga]

@rowasc Still waiting on access to WorldAware API.

In the meantime, can you investigate https://github.com/ushahidi/crisisnet/ to see if there's any previous knowledge that we can use.