出版社：International Association for Computer Information Systems
摘要：Emergency planners and responders are increasingly investigating the potential of social media as an information source "from the crowd" for providing critical information for emergency response. The proposed map-based social media widget, which may be integrated into a variety of web-based mapping applications, will provide users with an organized and comprehensive pool of real-time data gathered from one of the most popular social m edia source, Twitter. The widget focuses on developing solutions for two primary challenges related to information from social media sources ¨Cgathering and storing real-time data, and filtering and visualizing the gathered information based on required criteria. Users can view filtered data by keyword, time, and location. A user-friendly map for graphical display of feed locations is generated in order to provide a geographic context to an emergency situation
