About

This interactive map, built using the ArcGIS API for Javascript, allows you to view the progression of hurricanes and tropical storms. This functionality is available through the ArcGIS 10 time capability integrated into the ArcGIS system.

Application

This application is powered by ArcGIS for Server.

ArcGIS Online Basemaps

This application includes basemaps from ArcGIS Online including:

• Streetmap—The ArcGIS Online World Street basemap presents highway-level data for the world and street-level data for North America, Europe, Southern Africa, several countries in Asia, and more.
• Satellite Imagery—The ArcGIS Online World Imagery basemap presents satellite imagery for the world and high-resolution imagery for the United States, Great Britain, and hundreds of cities around the world.
• Topographic Map—The ArcGIS Online World Topographic basemap (aka "the community basemap") includes boundaries, cities, water features, physiographic features, parks, landmarks, transportation, and buildings.
• Open Street Map (OSM)—OpenStreetMap is a free editable street map of the whole world. OpenStreetMap allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere around the world.

Layers

• News Feeds: We gather the headline news from various on-line news agencies and pass each link through the RSStoGeoRSS web service. We use the Aggregated Live Feeds methodology to take the returned GeoRSS XML serve the data through ArcGIS Server as a map service.
• Tropical Cyclone: Tropical storm data is provided by the Pacific Disaster Center (PDC) as part of the active hazards map service. The data are dynamically updated in real-time.
• YouTube Videos: The videos are added to the application using the YouTube API. The YouTube data API allows you to request videos given a latitude and longitude position along with a search radius and keywords. From here we parse the response from YouTube and use the coordinates with each returned record to draw the point and incorporate the results into the ArcGIS API for JavaScript InfoWindow.
• Tweets: The Twitter API is used to identify tweets that match a specified query and area. In this case, only the tweets that return a coordinate value within the current visible map extent are added to the map. The Twitter API sends the results of the query back to the application as JSON which is easily incorporated into the ArcGIS API for JavaScript.
• Flickr: The Flickr API is used to identify Flickr photos that match search terms and a collection of other parameters identified in the Flickr API help pages. The Flickr API sends the results of the query back to the application as JSON which is easily incorporated into the ArcGIS API for JavaScript.

Web Developers

The Web Mapping APIs are an efficient way to utilize mapping, geocoding, and geoprocessing services provided by ArcGIS for Server and ArcGIS Online. Get started with the ArcGIS Web Mapping APIs to create your own applications.