{"id":1449,"date":"2007-03-18T09:56:33","date_gmt":"2007-03-18T12:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2007-03-18T09:56:57","modified_gmt":"2007-03-18T12:56:57","slug":"disaster-waiting-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1449","title":{"rendered":"Disaster, waiting to happen."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">V<\/span>ia <a href='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?attachment_id=1450' rel='attachment wp-att-1450' title='AlertMap shown in Firefox'><img class=\"alignright\" src='http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/03\/rsoe_edis.thumbnail.jpg' alt='AlertMap shown in Firefox' \/><\/a>MetaFilter (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/59545\/RealTime-Global-Bad-News-Map\">original discussion thread<\/a>), the Hungary-based &#8216;AlertMap&#8217;, a <a href=\"http:\/\/hisz.rsoe.hu\/alertmap\/woalert.php?lang=eng\">service that shows current events<\/a> in a &#8220;Google Maps&#8221; map. Not really original, but effective and (as it seems) close to &#8216;real-time&#8217;<sup>1<\/sup>.\n<\/p>\n<p>I need to add that the AlertMap heavily relies on Javascript: it works like a charm on Firefox and IE, but it doesn&#8217;t in Opera. Opera users are presented with a &#8216;boring&#8217; event list and even that list seem to come with plenty of CSS errors.\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"extra\"><small><sup>1<\/sup> Notice the appropriate quoting of the word &#8216;real-time&#8217;.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via MetaFilter (original discussion thread), the Hungary-based &#8216;AlertMap&#8217;, a service that shows current events in a &#8220;Google Maps&#8221; map. Not really original, but effective and (as it seems) close to &#8216;real-time&#8217;1. I need to add that the AlertMap heavily relies &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1449\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}