Austin Jennings

Interacting with Real-Time Data Feeds

This was part one of a laboratory assignement for my Web-Based GIS course. The purpose was to use Google Maps or a similar API to link to live data from another internet location. This map displays earthquakes greater than 1.0 magnitude on the Richter Scale occuring in the last week.

The data I linked to was from the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, using thier Real-time KML Feed. KML stands for Keyhole Markup Language (KML), and is a common form of storing geographic data. It has some limitations within web APIs because the layout and data symbology is not easily customizable (you will see here that the legends overlap). It does, however, make it very easy for users to interact with and explore datasets that are preformatted. If you wish to see the map in a separate window, click here