Geolocating social media posts for emergency mapping

TL;DR

This paper presents a webGIS interface demo that extracts and geolocates social media posts from multiple platforms to support rapid emergency mapping after natural disasters.

Contribution

It introduces a system that accurately geolocates social media content from various sources, enhancing emergency response mapping capabilities.

Findings

First results of the E2mC H2020 project demonstrate effective geolocation.

Extension from Twitter to other social media platforms is feasible.

The system supports rapid mapping activities during disasters.

Abstract

The demo will illustrate the features of a webGIS interface to support the rapid mapping activities after a natural disaster, with the goal of providing additional information from social media to the mapping operators. This demo shows the first results of the E2mC H2020 European project, where the goal is to extract precisely located information from available social media sources, providing accurate geolocating functionalities and, starting from posts searched in Twitter, extending the social media exploration to Flickr, YouTube, and Instagram.