Public ERIC: User Guide
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1. Public ERIC User Guide v0 2 17 Appendix A Glossary The following is a glossary of acronyms and terms used within this User Guide and within the ERIC tool Term ABS Authentication BOM CFA Checkboxes CSIRO Data source Drop down list Dynamic Layer Emergency Event Emergency Management team EMC ERIC ERIC Menu ESA Event GA GeoJSON Geospatial object GUI HSDRA Human Services Icon ICT Info sidebar JSON Layer Definition Australian Bureau of Statistics The process of logging on with username and password Bureau of Meteorology Country Fire Authority Provides a list of options for the user to select zero one or several Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation The origin of data used in ERIC For example the department ABS GA or web feeds Allows the user to choose one value from a list See layer information obtained from web feeds See event when the event is an emergency situation for example fire flood etc The Emergency Management team within the Human Services Face to Face Channel Operations and Emergency Management Branch Emergency Management Coordinator Emergency Response Intelligence Capability The left most menu on the ERIC bar containing the longboat icon Emergency Situation Awareness An incident or situation that occurs in a particular place during an interval of time Geoscience Australia A format for encoding a geographic data structures ba2. BoM Federal Electorates BoM BoM BoM QRS lt 5m CISA3s Hotspots GA 52m _ State Electorates F Weather Alerts BoM 7m Local Government Areas I Cyclone BoM A 7w ne Local Areas act E E Incidents ESA am _ Postcodes _ Suburbs NaN CISAts i W Fires RFS 1h M Road Closures RTA 14m Plans QLD E Fires QFRS 28m E Plans Fl SES Calls DCS 14 E Road Closures 13 19 40 34m E Plans SA E Fires CFS amp 4h TAS I Fires TFS lt 5m VIC El Fires CFA am E Fires DSE lt 5m E Road Closures VicRoads 12w E Plans wA E Fires DFES 16h SKE I eel ee Oa Oe M k e 2 9 1 REGION amp STATS LAYERS Clicking on the Region amp Stats Layers button will show a drop down list of all available ABS statistical layers You ll notice that some layers are greyed out this indicates that they cannot be turned on at the current Map zoom level 2 9 2 DYNAMIC LAYERS Clicking on the Dynamic Layers button will show a drop down list of all available dynamic layers such as weather warnings and current incidents This is shown below These are grouped by state for easier navigation and include links to the original data sources An indication of how current the layer data is also shown beside the layer name This is the amount of time since the data was updated at the source A warning icon is shown beside layers where there has been a problem retrieving updates from the data source Public ERIC
3. The smaller map at the lower right hand corner of the Map View The geographic elements in the Map View which provides street map terrain and satellite imagery backdrops for Australia Similar to a Google Map Move the map view to a new location a combination of north south east or west Portable Document Format A sequence of points connected by straight lines describing a region There are many further definitions enforcing correct polygons where the lines do not cross points are not repeated and the first and last points are coincident Points of Presense A separate window that displays information to the user Preparation Preparedness Response and Recovery A listing of all ERIC data sources Rural Fire Service Rich Site Summary Really Simple Syndication ABS Statistical Area Level 1 ABS Statistical Area Level 2 ABS Statistical Area Level 3 ABS Statistical Area Level 4 Situation Report See layer contains preloaded data for display in the Map view A single component in a collection of choices organised together Only one tab may be active at a time Allows the user to enter data A collection of user interface menus and buttons Uniform Resource Locator A source of dynamic data about emergency events in ERIC Move the map view to be closer zoom in or further away zoom out The GUI element to allow the user to zoom The current state of the zoom as displayed on the Map view Public ERIC User Guide
4. User Guide v0 2 6 2 10 Map Key Clicking on the Map Key button will display a panel showing descriptions for each icon that may be present on the map Fire danger rating colours are also explained Click on the Map Key button again to close the panel Fir e Fire Advice Fire Watch amp Fire Act Emergency 3 Hotspot Hazard Fire Ban False Alarm Reduction All Clear Permit Fire Weather Flood Severe Severe Warning Warming Weather Storm Warning Warning Road Frost Flectrical Vehide Weather Warming Fault Incident Waring Bushwalkers Hare Sheep Brown Rot Weather Warning Greziers Warning Warning Warning i Tsunami Other Road Closed Pending Warning Hazard Pune woes Update Baro phic Fire Danger Scale Brown icons are for closed event Clict any icon of shape for more information 2 11 Share Button Clicking on the Share Button will display a variety of options for sharing the current ERIC map view This is shown below The options include Twitter Facebook Tumblr email or link Each option will generate a simple message to post For example the following message is generated for Twitter Look what I found on Eric http eric csiro au z0om 5 amp date 2013 06 28T06 08 00 371Z amp lat 3336510 2759728 amp lon 16974482 976567 amp bounds 13843622 298442 5635736 0864708 20105343 654692 1037284 4654748 amp SA4 amp fire_danger amp bom amp esa amp rfs amp aqfrs amp qses amp qldroads amp
5. and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3 0 Unported License e QLD Rural Fire Service This work is based on materials that constitute copyright of the Department of Community Safety and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3 0 Australia licence e SA Country Fire Service This work is based on materials that constitute copyright of the Government of South Australia 2013 and is licensed under the Creative Commons Australia Attribution 3 0 Licence e TAS Fire Service Disclaimer This information is extracted from the Tasmania Fire Service s Fire Incident Response Management FIRM system This information is not necessarily real time information but is provided as a general indication of current activity During outages of the TFS Website members of the public should refer to their ABC Loca Radio for bushfire information and updates e VicRoads VicRoads is acknowledged as the copyright owner of the Victorian Road Closure data used by ERIC Public ERIC User Guide v0 2 20 B 2 Third Party Software The following third party software applications and libraries are used by ERIC Web Server e Apache e Tomcat e mod_wsgi e Python e wkhtmitopdf Python Libraries e Flask e Werkzeug e LXML e Beautiful Soup e Psycopg2 e simplejson e pyKML e feedparser e pytz e Python Markdown e libxrender1 e Xvfb Java Libraries e JSON e JExcelAPI JavaScript Libraries e OpenLayers
6. at once this makes panning zooming slow it s best to navigate to region of interest first then enable layers when the map is busy blurred and spinning wheel don t interact User interface tasks will be queued otherwise Public ERIC User Guide v0 2 1 2 Map View The key user interface elements of the ERIC Map View are labelled in Figure 1 below Each of these elements is described in detail in the following sections Select Tools Date Controller Layer Controls Share ERIC Map Key B T _ A y utton ON fl H a o CS See eee a ee Search Toolbar i Cag Cannel ia m v Tool Zoom Control _ Info eae Sidebar Map Map Polygon Icons Map Ra Figure 1 ERIC Map View User Interface Elements 2 1 Map The Map is the main user interface element and the very first time you open ERIC in your browser it will display a map of Australia with no overlaid data layers Subsequent visits to the ERIC web site may take you automatically to the last map view you were looking at This will depend on whether you have cookies enabled This view provides street map terrain and satellite imagery backdrops for Australia It includes imagery containing roads suburbs features of interest water features national parks and so on Other data layers are presented on top of this backdrop to provide context about emergency events The Map is interactive the user can zoom in and out using the Zoom Controls or t
7. by NOW or you can select a date and time in the past to view the events that were active at that particular time Clicking on the Date Controller toolbar button which will either be NOW or a timestamp will display the Date Controller window as shown below 2013 02 28 17 00 bt nth Day Hours Minutes C iaai 2013 02 28 17 00 mca p Use the and buttons to adjust the date and time displayed or click on the Now button to set the date and time to be the current time When happy with the date and time selected click on the Set button This will close the Date Controller window and cause ERIC to refresh its Map to display events from the date and time selected 2 9 Layer Controls weather roads fire Ez sroin cesar a ag lee Deca tht The Layer Controls are used to turn on off the Map layers Note that some layers are only available when zoomed into an appropriate level For example the Postcodes layer cannot be turned on when viewing the whole of Australia The weather roads and fire buttons are shortcuts to turn on off all of the related dynamic event layers The following show the drop down lists of both Region amp Stats and Dynamic Layers The tick boxes show what layers are currently visible To close a drop down list click on its button above again Public ERIC User Guide v0 2 5 Region amp Stats Layers Byname Layers KEY E States National SA4s El Fire Danger CFA BoM
8. indicated by the grey star icon QF 1 13 061318 Fire Advice 2013 06 26 12 01 16 10 00 Alert Level Advice Location Goodsell Rd Cape Cleveland Reported 26 06 2013 12 01 16 PM Cur rent Status Going Details A fire or other emer gency has started in the area however there is no immediate threat Bowling J NGicen The last example shows the effect of selecting multiple event icons on the map You ll also notice that the information displayed in the sidebar for the road closed event highlights what has been updated from the previously published event information TAMBORINE MOUN TAIN Closed Road 2073 06 03 16 00 12 164061 70 00 Main Western Road Tamborine Mountain Scenic nim rcp meal The Goat p a eer to ns Mag a wetter ts ewen it i j see e la ee 20 0 Jun May 2013 at a9 15 Next Update When conditions change tya SOUTHPORT SpecialEvent ESI eet 2013 06 22 09 10 11 572719 10 00 a y Marine Parade Southport Event Starting 06 July at 3 00am Event Completion OF July at 3 00pm All directions Road closed both directions Use al ternative route Detours in place for Gold Coast Highway and Marine Parade as a result of the Gold Coast Marathon Follow Queensland Police and trafic controllers directions For more route informa Paradise tion go to www mygc com au Public ERIC User Guide v0 2 10 3 Other Interfaces and Features 3 1 Data Registry A lis
9. toolbar may change depending on the browser s window size If the window is small for example when viewing on a mobile device then several buttons and menus will be combined into a single menu button on the Toolbar 2 6 ERIC Menu Clicking on the ERIC Menu button will display a drop down menu as shown below EPS Look Select Drew Data Registry Help erncenguines esiro au Acknowledgements Copyright Legal Notice amp Disclaimer The menu is partitioned by the features offered The first section contains links to the Data Registry which is explained in section 3 1 and the online Help this document and also ericenquiries csiro au which launches your email application with the To and Subject fields already filled in Use this to send feedback or enquiries to the CSIRO ERIC development team The second section contains a link to the Acknowledgements page which lists all of the 3 party data sources and software libraries used There are also links to the standard CSIRO copyright and legal notice and disclaimer pages Click on the ERIC Menu button again to hide the drop down menu 2 7 Select Tools Public ERIC User Guide v0 2 3 The Look Select and Draw tools can be used to select one or more items on the Map Only one of these can be active at a time The active tool is the one that is pressed In the screenshot above the Look tool is active 2 7 1 LOOK The Look tool allows y
10. v0 2 19 Appendix B Acknowledgements The development of ERIC and the supporting research has been funded under the CSIRO Australian Government Department of Human Services Human Services Delivery Research Alliance HSDRA This Public ERIC User Guide is a subset of the full ERIC User Guide which describes the ERIC tool that was developed for the Emergency Management team of the Australian Government Department of Human Services Robinson B Wise C Power R 2013 ERIC User Guide CSIRO Australia ERIC collects and displays data from a number of external data sources and also makes use of many third party software applications and libraries These are all acknowledged in this appendix Hyperlinks to the data custodians and third party software creators are also provided B 1 Data Sources Please see the ERIC Data Registry for details on exact datasets used and licence conditions e 131940 QLD Traffic and Travel Information e ACT Emergency Services Agency e Australian Bureau of Statistics The statistical boundaries and Census data displayed within ERIC is based on Australian Bureau of Statistics data e Bureau of Meteorology e Geoscience Australia The Hotspot fires mapping layer is based on Geoscience Australia data e NSW Rural Fire Service e NSW Transport Roads and Maritime Services e QLD Department of Community Safety This work is based on materials that constitute copyright of the Department of Community Safety
11. Public ERIC User Guide Emergency Response Intelligence Capability Bella Robinson Catherine Wise and Robert Power CSIRO ePublish EP137555 July 2013 lt Australian Government atif CSIRO Department of Human Services Human Services Delivery Research Alliance Citation Robinson B Wise C Power R 2013 Public ERIC User Guide CSIRO Australia Copyright and disclaimer 2013 CSIRO To the extent permitted by law all rights are reserved and no part of this publication covered by copyright may be reproduced or copied in any form or by any means except with the written permission of CSIRO Important disclaimer CSIRO advises that the information contained in this publication comprises general statements based on scientific research The reader is advised and needs to be aware that such information may be incomplete or unable to be used in any specific situation No reliance or actions must therefore be made on that information without seeking prior expert professional scientific and technical advice To the extent permitted by law CSIRO including its employees and consultants excludes all liability to any person for any consequences including but not limited to all losses damages costs expenses and any other compensation arising directly or indirectly from using this publication in part or in whole and any Introduction 1 Introduction The Emergency Response Intelligence Capability ERIC tool integrates dynami
12. c information from real time web feeds with background static data to provide a national picture The information is obtained from numerous sources statistical regions from the Australian Bureau of Statistics ABS context data including demographics and details of the natural and built environment dynamic web feeds describing emergency events as they progress the historical record of previous dynamic web feeds ERIC was developed for the Emergency Management team of the Australian Government Department of Human Services A public version of the ERIC tool is available to demonstrate key features to emergency service organisations other government departments and the general public available at http eric csiro au This User Guide describes the operation and function of the public version of the ERIC tool The main ERIC interface is the Map View which is described in detail in Section 2 The Data Registry and examples of using ERIC on mobile devices are described in Section 3 A glossary of terms and detailed acknowledgements can be found in the Appendices 1 1 Recommendations The following are a list of recommendations which should provide a better user experience use a modern browser for example Internet Explorer 9 Mozilla Firefox 16 Google Chrome 22 or Safari 6 if possible maximise your browser window to use the full screen preferred screen resolution of 1280x1024 don t have too many layers displayed
13. cation en Don t Allow OK After selecting Don t Allow or OK the main Map View interface will load as shown in the next screen Public ERIC User Guide v0 2 12 4 80 mm ERIC eric csiro au Search weather roads fire Aoo PANJE zaj Ae S fj o Poe SOA e a aS f y Xa aam rf ap Hi Tags ur r J A Aat h j Z j WW f g i e K gt if j jj AA it f 46 it f Canberra International oes BRP You will notice that quite a bit of screen space is taken up by the iPhone Safari browser s top and bottom panels A trick to get Safari to hide these is to launch ERIC via your home screen To set this up click on the tag button You will then be presented with the following screen Facebook Tio o k ce Home Screen Bookmark Add to Reading List Cancel Tap on the Add to Home Screen icon in the following screen modify the name ERIC if you want to and then tap on the Add button in the top right An ERIC icon will now appear on your iPhone s home screen The ERIC tool can then be launched from your home screen by tapping on its icon Loading ERIC this way will provide more screen real estate as shown in the next screen Public ERIC User Guide v0 2 13 ualll Optus J i 13 15 4 80 weather roads fire amp SES OF Op LS Canberra International oo WF Airpor
14. cfs amp tfs amp cfa amp fesa eric australia Public ERIC User Guide v0 2 7 2 12 Search Tool a springfield am place suburb Springfield Creekside Queensland Australia The Search Tool allows searching for place names Places you can search for include Towns businesses libraries roads landmarks cities and LGAs Enter a place name to search for in the text box and press the Enter key If a matching place is found the Map will zoom to that location If more than one matching place is found the Map will zoom to the first one found and then you can click on the arrow buttons to move to the next one found and so on Click on the Done button when finished searching 2 13 Map icons Items belonging to visible map layers may be represented by icons on the map The item may be selected by clicking on its map icon This will cause the Info Sidebar to display detailed information for the selected item When there is a cluster of icons situated very closely on the map they are grouped together as a single icon and the small green number on the icon will indicate how many items that icon represents For example indicates that there are two events close together Clicking on this icon will display information for both events in the Info Sidebar The Map Key defines what each icon represents 2 14 Map Polygons Some layers are represented by polygons on the map These include statistical layers and some events where the affected r
15. e JQuery e JQuery Ul e spin js e jquery cookie Database e PostgreSQL e PostGIS e GDAL Mapping e OpenStreetMap e Map Icons Public ERIC User Guide v0 2 21 CONTACT US FOR FURTHER INFORMATION t 1300 363 400 CSIRO ICT Centre 61 3 9545 2176 Bella Robinson e enquiries csiro au t 61 2 6216 7049 w www csiro au e bella robinson csiro au w www csiro au ict YOUR CSIRO Australia is founding its future on science and innovation Its national science agency CSIRO is a powerhouse of ideas technologies and skills for building prosperity growth health and sustainability It serves governments industries business and communities across the nation
16. egion is defined by a polygon for example a weather warning or bushfire footprint Simply click inside the polygon to select the related item The Info Sidebar will then display the detailed information for that item 2 15 Info Sidebar The Info Sidebar appears when one or more Map items are selected The information displayed is dependent on the item s selected It can contain information on multiple events regions Click on the X button at the top right of the Info Sidebar to close it The following are some examples of the Info Sidebar showing different content The selected map item is highlighted on the map Public ERIC User Guide v0 2 8 The first is an example of the LGA region Townsville C being selected on the map The Info Sidebar contains some summary ABS Census statistics for the selected region Townsville C Level LGA Population 174 462 Median Household Income 1 626 0 Industies by Employed 1 Health amp Social Assistance 10 905 6 3 2 Public administration amp Safety 10 334 5 9 3 Retail trade 9 309 5 3 Household Size mean 2 9 Education Att if any 31 8 P PS HS Internet Con None Indigenous Population 10 702 6 13 Languages 95 proficient at English English Only 152 607 Other 3 095 Italian 289 1 Population Pyramid Public ERIC User Guide v0 2 9 The next example is showing the result of clicking on a Fire Advice map icon The selected icon is
17. ency Incidents Description Fire and Vehicle Incidents Custodian ACT ESA How obtained download Category dynamic Started retrieving 06 09 2012 copyright Copyright data RSS data licence CC by 3 0 AU licence Legal Code metadata Web page metadata Incident map Australian Bureau of Statistics 2011 Census data Description Basic Community Profile Third Release Custodian ABS How obtained download Category static When obtained 25 03 2013 Created on 26 03 2013 copyright copyright data DataPack licence CC BY 2 5 licence Creative Commons Legal Code Attribution 2 5 Australia Public ERIC User Guide v0 2 11 3 2 Mobile Use The ERIC tool may be accessed via a browser on mobile devices such as an iPad or iPhone However due to the limited screen sizes the user interface will appear differently The following sections show examples of what you are likely to be presented with when using ERIC on a mobile device 3 2 1 iPhone Interface To access ERIC on your iPhone open your browser and enter the ERIC URL The first thing you will be notice is that you are asked if the ERIC web site can use your current location as is shown in the screen below Selecting OK will zoom the initial map to your location this is normal for most iPhone mapping apps You can choose Don t Allow which will initially display the entire map of Australia http eric csiro au Would Like To Use Your Current Lo
18. he mouse scroll wheel they can pan the map by dragging their mouse across the Map area and can select elements on the Map by clicking on them ERIC will blur the Map and display a spinning wheel while new data is being loaded This will occur when the Map is zoomed or panned or when the layer visibility is changed This provides visual feedback to indicate that the page is busy It is advisable to wait until the spinning wheel has disappeared before interacting with the Map again The underlying map data is from OpenStreetMap http www openstreetmap org Public ERIC User Guide v0 2 2 2 2 Zoom Controls Clicking on the button will cause the Map to zoom in Clicking on the button will cause the Map to zoom out The and buttons can be clicked multiple times to continue to adjust the zoom level 2 3 Mini Map The Mini Map shows the extent of the current main Map area as a red dotted rectangle It is particularly useful when zoomed into a small region in the main Map area The Mini Map may also be used to pan the main Map by dragging the red dotted rectangle or clicking somewhere outside the red rectangle 2 4 Map Scale The Map Scale is a small line indicator representing the current map scale of the Map Both km kilometres and mi miles units are shown 2 5 Toolbar The Toolbar runs across the top of the screen and contains all of the menus and buttons used to interact with the Map View interface The contents of this
19. ou to zoom and pan the map as well as select single items on the map for example an event icon or statistical region polygon When an item is selected information about that item is displayed in the Info Sidebar 2 7 2 SELECT The Select tool allows you to select multiple regions at once click each region to select deselect You cannot however zoom and pan the map 2 7 3 DRAW The Draw tool allows you to create a custom region or drawing which can then be used to select multiple regions and events When the Draw tool is active you will see a blue circle at the tip of your mouse cursor Click on the Map to start drawing by adding a corner click again to add another corner double click to make the final corner and finish the drawing The following screenshot shows an example of using the Draw tool _ book Selled Draw SEVE The Save button which only appears when Draw is active lets you name and save the drawing to the Last Drawing layer in the Region amp Stats menu described below This layer always shows the most recent drawing saved by any user Public ERIC User Guide v0 2 4 When you change back to the Look or Select tools the drawing will remain even if you haven t saved it You can then select the drawing s polygon like any other region If you refresh the page without saving the drawing will be lost 2 8 Date Controller The Date Controller can be used to either monitor current events indicated
20. sed on JSON The representation of an object on the Earth s surface as a spatial entity defined as a point line or polygon or collection of these Graphical User Interface Human Services Delivery Research Alliance Australian Government Department of Human Services An element a picture or symbol that represents another feature of the GUI Information and Communications Technologies Similar to a popup but appears over the Map View by sliding in and out of view JavaScript Object Notation A separate collection of geospatial objects A layer usually has the same geospatial type point line or polygon and represents related real world entities such as roads rivers suburbs postal regions Public ERIC User Guide v0 2 18 Term LGA Map icon Map icon cluster Map key Map scale Map View Mini map Open Street Map Pan PDF Polygon PoP Popup PPRR Registry RFS RSS SA1 SA2 SA3 SA4 SitRep Static Layer Tab Text box Toolbar URL Web Feed Zoom Zoom control Zoom level Definition Local Government Area See icon a visual indicator on the map representing a object or event at a location See Map icon a map icon with a number in the lower right corner indicating the number of aggregate map icons being represented A panel showing descriptions for the map icons The small line indicator representing the current map scale in kilometres and miles The main map interface of the ERIC web site
21. t ek vA by OpenStreetMa You will notice that there are far fewer buttons on the top Toolbar than there are when view on a desktop browser The missing ones can all still be accessed however via the o button The following screen shows the effect of tapping this button AA EnA sae E ulil Optus F 13 16 80 Em weather roads firea ERIC NOW Region amp Stats Layers Dynamic Layers Key Share Public ERIC User Guide v0 2 14 3 2 2 iPad Interface The iPad interface is a bit of a cross between the iPhone and the desktop interfaces With its larger screen size it is able to show most of the normal toolbar items some however are still accessed via the button The following screens show examples of using ERIC on an iPad a f it a ia a Mitchell ee Pee J i f koui A eo Xe c z S Pialligo Austraifart Public ERIC User Guide v0 2 15 The Date Controller behaves in much the same manner as the desktop version No SIM gt 13 02 2013 07 01 13 02 Month Day Hours Minutes SeScses 13 02 on l EDEA Public ERIC User Guide v0 2 16 The following screen shows how to access the Region amp Stats Layers via the button Tap on the Region amp Stats Layers button and the list of layers will be shown Tap each layer to turn it on off State Electorates Local Government Areas Statistical Local Areas SA25 Postcodes Suburbs SATS
22. ting of all ERIC data sources can be shown by selecting the Data Registry option from the ERIC menu This will open a new web page with a complete listing of all data sources used within the ERIC system There are two categories of data static and dynamic Static data is not regularly updated although as new releases become available for example updated ABS Census data they are downloaded again and ERIC is updated to use this new version The most recent download date is recorded as the When obtained date Dynamic data is updated regularly and usually contains current information about ongoing incidents or current weather warnings ERIC checks these data sources for updates approximately every 10 minutes so that any new developments are reported within the system promptly Most ERIC data has been downloaded from each custodian s public web site this is indicated by the How obtained value Where possible direct links to the data downloads are listed along with links to any metadata information and associated copyright and licence material The registry may also be accessed directly via the following URL http eric csiro au registry registry The following is a sample of the information listed on the registry page 131940 QLD Road Closures Description Road Closures Custodian 131940 How obtained download Categor dynamic Started retrieving 10 10 2012 copyright Copyright data JSON data metadata Web page ACT Emergency Services Ag
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