MapAlerter Data Sharing
We are pleased to offer our MapAlerter data for reuse in your applications. We are currently sharing through Google Fusion Tables and we will soon be publishing data in other formats, such as XML, JSON and other standards. Our data is freely available, and no developer key is required.
We look forward to seeing how you can leverage the MapAlerter base data to build your own mashups and applications.
Google Fusion Data Sharing
Our Fusion Tables data is published to the following location:
We issue a range of information about our alerts, including geometry information. Full schema details are as follows:
| File Name | type | Description | Example |
| id | int | Unique ID for each alert that is published on the website. If you want to link back to an alert published on MapAlerter.com then use the example structure: |
http://www.mapalerter.com/alerts/viewtrack/id--.html http://www.mapalerter.com/alerts/viewtrack/499--.html |
| title | text | This is a basic introduction used by local authorities to describe the alert. | |
| description | text | MapAlerter allows Councils to issue alerts via email, and this can include a large amount of HTML. Whatever is input as an "Email Alert" will be published to the Description | |
| created_by | int | The codes use here refer to the various local authorities using MapAlerter. While archive codes exist for some Councils, the following refer to our current "Live Alerters": |
2703 = Carlow Local Authorities 92 = Waterford City Council 88 = Roscommon County Council 95 = Wexford Local Authorities 79 = Limerick County Council |
| created | text | Date that the alert was published on MapAlerter.com. Date is formatted for use in RSS applications, but feel free to split it up and reuse for your applications! | 12/01/2012 12:31:04 |
| SMS | text | The original content that was published on MapAlerter for the SMS Text Alert content | |
| category | text | MapAlerter issues alerts into specific categories. So if your app is focused on Flooding, then only consume our "Flood Alert" categories |
Water Service Alert Road Works Alert Severe Weather Warning Road Incident Alert Flood Alert Custom Alert Bridge Lift |
| latitude | text | Latitude Coordinate for a MapAlert. the WGS 84 projection is used to coincide with Google/OpenLayers applications |
53.12345 |
| longitude | text | Longitude Coordinate for a MapAlert. the WGS 84 projection is used to coincide with Google/OpenLayers applications | -7.12345 |
| geometry | geom | The Alert boundary used for MapAlerter.com is published as embedded geometry (Google Fusion Only) | |
| file_name | text | This is the URL variable to link to our KML polygon data (hosted on Amazon Web Services). Just replace the variable name, "file_name", with the data from the Fusion table. This will allow you to save/load our KML polygons directly from a hosted resource. |
https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/mapalerterie/kml/file_name.kml https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/mapalerterie/kml/MapAlerter.com-Road-Works-Alert-WexfordCoCo-2011-05-20---10-14-16.kml
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GeoRSS Data Sharing
There is a unique GeoRSS URL for each Council on MapAlerter.com. The RSS feed will include alert information for the 8 previous alerts from each local authority. The RSS feed includes the Published Date, Alert Title, URL ID link to MapAlerter and Alert Description. The coordinates for the polygon geometry are also included. The basic URL structure is as follows:
- http://www.mapalerter.ie/georss/<alerter-name>.xml
The county parameters are as follows:
- waterfordcity (http://www.mapalerter.ie/georss/waterfordcity.xml)
- countylimerick (http://www.mapalerter.ie/georss/countylimerick.xml)
- carlow (http://www.mapalerter.ie/georss/carlow.xml)
- wexford (http://www.mapalerter.ie/georss/wexford.xml)
- roscommon (http://www.mapalerter.ie/georss/roscommon.xml)
GeoJSON Data Sharing
There is a unique GeoJSON URL for each Council on MapAlerter.com. The JSON data will include alert information for the 8 previous alerts from each local authority. The RSS feed includes the Published Date, Alert Title, URL ID link to MapAlerter and Alert Description. The coordinates for the polygon geometry are also included. The basic URL structure is as follows:
- http://www.mapalerter.ie/json/<alerter-name>.json
The county parameters are as follows:
- waterfordcity (http://www.mapalerter.ie/json/waterfordcity.json)
- countylimerick (http://www.mapalerter.ie/json/countylimerick.json)
- carlow (http://www.mapalerter.ie/json/carlow.json)
- wexford (http://www.mapalerter.ie/json/wexford.json)
- roscommon (http://www.mapalerter.ie/json/roscommon.json)
Disclaimer
Data from MapAlerter.com is provided "as is" and is based on submissions from the various participating Councils. We are not responsible for how you use the MapAlerter.com data. Therefore if the data contains errors or inaccuracies, we are also not responsible for any related issues with your applications or mashups. If you use this data then it is at your risk and not at the risk of MapAlerter.com or the Council who published the source information.
Feedback Request!
The success of our Data Sharing programme is based on interaction with members of the developer community who will use the MapAlerter data feeds. If you want additional information added to our structure, or have specific query options that you would like added then please send all feedback to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.