Emergencies strike at moments we never think of. Marking another milestone of Google Maps, they have introduced emergency alerts in Google maps. This system will notify any alert whether it’s a public, security, threat etc.
This cool feature gets constantly fed by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Weather Service, and the US Geological Survey (USGS).
Providing a glimpse of how the program will work, Google offered the hypothetical example of a flood in Indiana. If you searched “flood Indiana,” you’d see a Google Maps page offering links to local flood-related businesses. However, if there were a flood warning, Google would state there was a “Flood Warning in Northern Indiana” and offer a “more info” link, which would lead to a page like this offering more details on the progress of the flood.
Soucre: mashable
