{"id":214572,"date":"2017-06-08T07:44:33","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T05:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=214572"},"modified":"2017-06-08T07:46:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T05:46:14","slug":"facebook-launches-disaster-maps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/214572-facebook-launches-disaster-maps.html","title":{"rendered":"Facebook launches disaster maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.fb.com\/news\/2017\/06\/using-data-to-help-communities-recover-and-rebuild\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>unveiled disaster maps<\/strong><\/a>, which can help provide food, water, and medical supplies to people struck by natural disasters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter a flood, fire, earthquake, or other natural disaster, response organisations need accurate information,&#8221; said Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional communication channels are often offline and it can take significant time to understand where help is needed.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook can help organisations paint a complete picture of where affected people are located.<\/p>\n<p>To do this, Facebook\u2019s disaster maps use aggregated, de-identified Facebook data to provide multiple types of maps during disaster response efforts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location density maps<\/strong> show where people are located before, during, and after a disaster.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Movement maps<\/strong> illustrate patterns of movement between different neighbourhoods or cities over a period of several hours.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Safety Check maps<\/strong> are based on where the\u00a0community uses Safety Check to notify their friends that they are safe.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Ffacebook%2Fvideos%2F10155889045356729%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"325\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/213668-facebook-albums-to-add-more-features.html\">Facebook Albums to add more features<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook has unveiled disaster maps, which can help provide food, water, and medical supplies to people in need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":175447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[43782,161],"class_list":["post-214572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-disaster-maps","tag-facebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214578,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214572\/revisions\/214578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}