Terris
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Application Description
Driving back to Wellington one Sunday evening after a weekend away, we were listening to some oddly comforting dross on the radio. Somewhere before Wanganui, the program was interrupted with a news flash that Wellington* had been hit by a 6.4 magnitude earthquake.
The first thing we thought of was: Do we really want to go back to Wellington that night?
The second thing we thought of was: Start texting friends to ensure that they were OK. After a few texts, I started to get bored, and it struck me that it would sort of useful to have an app that would automatically text one's contacts in the event of a suitably large earthquake. A 'Please help' type of message including the latitude & longitude could be used, to ensure that ones friends actually called back to see if one was ok, and if not, at least they would have a latitude and longitude to start looking for one.
That struck me as a bit over the top for the 99.9% of the time that one wouldn't be incapacitated by a collapsing building, so the ability to send an 'I'm ok', as opposed to a help request, message would also be useful to send one's contacts.
Hence Terris.
Terris originated as a New Zealand earthquake orientated app. Its intent is to regularly poll for earthquakes from different feeds (Currently GNS and USGS), and present the user with a list of results. The user can navigate into these results to get finer details on each earthquake. They can further navigate to a map view to see the location of the earthquake. A time control on the map allows the user to see how the current earthquake relates to previous and future earthquakes in the time line.
The earthquakes can be filtered by magnitude to limit the results displayed.
The user can set up the application, so that in the event an earthquake above a certain magnitude occurs, the application will attempt to rapidly prompt the user through the iOS SMS and Email systems to send either a 'help' request , or 'I'm ok' confirmation notification messages to the user's registered contacts. The user has the option of sending their location in the help request, to aid with their rescue.
In the event that the user feels the earthquake before being prompted by the application, the user can choose to trigger the sending of the the 'Help', 'You Ok?' or 'I'm Ok' notifications themselves.
We acknowledge the New Zealand GeoNet project and its sponsors EQC, GNS Science and LINZ, for providing data used.
We also acknowledge the USGS for use of its data.
* Actually it was Seddon that got hammered, but as this didn't fit in with the Kiwi collective psyche's dream of Wellington getting flattened by 'The Big One', it took a while for that to be acknowledged.
The first thing we thought of was: Do we really want to go back to Wellington that night?
The second thing we thought of was: Start texting friends to ensure that they were OK. After a few texts, I started to get bored, and it struck me that it would sort of useful to have an app that would automatically text one's contacts in the event of a suitably large earthquake. A 'Please help' type of message including the latitude & longitude could be used, to ensure that ones friends actually called back to see if one was ok, and if not, at least they would have a latitude and longitude to start looking for one.
That struck me as a bit over the top for the 99.9% of the time that one wouldn't be incapacitated by a collapsing building, so the ability to send an 'I'm ok', as opposed to a help request, message would also be useful to send one's contacts.
Hence Terris.
Terris originated as a New Zealand earthquake orientated app. Its intent is to regularly poll for earthquakes from different feeds (Currently GNS and USGS), and present the user with a list of results. The user can navigate into these results to get finer details on each earthquake. They can further navigate to a map view to see the location of the earthquake. A time control on the map allows the user to see how the current earthquake relates to previous and future earthquakes in the time line.
The earthquakes can be filtered by magnitude to limit the results displayed.
The user can set up the application, so that in the event an earthquake above a certain magnitude occurs, the application will attempt to rapidly prompt the user through the iOS SMS and Email systems to send either a 'help' request , or 'I'm ok' confirmation notification messages to the user's registered contacts. The user has the option of sending their location in the help request, to aid with their rescue.
In the event that the user feels the earthquake before being prompted by the application, the user can choose to trigger the sending of the the 'Help', 'You Ok?' or 'I'm Ok' notifications themselves.
We acknowledge the New Zealand GeoNet project and its sponsors EQC, GNS Science and LINZ, for providing data used.
We also acknowledge the USGS for use of its data.
* Actually it was Seddon that got hammered, but as this didn't fit in with the Kiwi collective psyche's dream of Wellington getting flattened by 'The Big One', it took a while for that to be acknowledged.
Requirements
Your mobile device must have at least 1.89 MB of space to download and install Terris app. Terris is available on iTunes for $0.99
If you have any problems with installation or in-app purchase, found bugs, questions, comments about this application, you can visit the official website of Three Seasons Software Three Seasons Software Limited at http://www.threeseasonssoftware.com.
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