TileMill <https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/> does this pretty well and
has a crash
course <https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/docs/crashcourse/introduction/> on
this. See here:
https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/docs/crashcourse/point-data/ and
https://www.mapbox.com/tilemill/docs/crashcourse/tooltips/

And the data is fed from USGS feeds:
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/feed/v1.0/

Sudhira.


On Thu, Jun 5, 2014 at 4:15 AM, Ankur Nagar <ankur.na...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Gora, data should be in CSV / TSV format - in terms of geo data: lat long
> coordinates.
>
> I totally get the point about an online interface - but that's not the
> primary output for this one. Consider this a quick, impactful communication
> piece for when you get a few minutes of someone's limited attention to make
> a critical point.
>
> Yes mutual points of interest is of course cool :-)  Was curious as you
> had referred that 'we' might get involved, did you mean datameet or
> something else?
>
> Cheers,
> Ankur
>
> On Wednesday, June 4, 2014 2:27:23 PM UTC-4, Gora Mohanty wrote:
>
>> On 4 June 2014 23:48, Ankur Nagar <ankur...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Nisha - yes, we the data is available.
>>
>> Great. Sounds interesting. What format are the data in? How does one
>> get geographical information for the data?
>>
>> > Hi Gora, not sure if we have been introduced - there are a number of
>> > possibilities one can imagine here from a GIS interlace to JS-based
>> > visualization to an app and so on. Our objective for a video is to
>> drive the
>> > message home in a quick, impactful way to policy audiences who may not
>> be
>> > tech savvy and would be time strapped.
>>
>> * The only introduction one should need is if there are mutual points
>> of interest :-)
>> * Our primary interest would be in an online interface
>> * A video can be (manually) generated from such an interface. As you
>> mention, there is a valid reason why one might want a video. But, I
>> will ask again my earlier question: Who do you think your primary
>> audience would be?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Gora
>>
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