Google Integrates Public Warnings into Google Maps

Wish you had a graphical display off all current public alerts and warnings?  Head over to http://www.google.org/publicalerts and browse around.

Google just launched a maps page that places current alerts, watches and warnings from the National Weather Service, NOAA, and the USGS on a single interactive map.  While aggregation and display is nifty, where Google really shines is in the fact that they are integrating alerts data with search results on Google Maps.  If you go to Google Maps and search for a term that resembles an existing watch or warning, that data will be displayed with your search results.  No word on the Google Blog whether there are plans to integrate warning data with typical web search results – but that would be really cool, too.

For the complete word, here is the official Google Blog post.

http://blog.google.org/2012/01/public-alerts-now-on-google-maps.html