Live Feeds

A live feed is a read-only overlay that is visible on every shared map. The live feeds available to your organisation are controlled by the organisation configuration. Contact your FireMapper representative to request additional live feeds. The data in a live feed can be sourced from a FireMapper shared map or an external data source. Live Feeds may include Traffic Incidents Feeds, Fire Incident Feeds, Traffic/Weather Cameras, Roadworks, Road Closures, Satellite Detected Hotspots, Current Alerts and Warnings, File Stations and more.


Live Feeds Table

All the live feeds that you have access to are listed in the Live Feeds Table.

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Live Feed Status

The live feeds table is automatically updated every 5 seconds to displays the status of each live feed. If a feed has recently been updated in the last 60 seconds, it will be highlighted with a green background.

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If a feed’s last update has failed, it will be highlighted with a red background. The update can fail for a number of reasons such as an error while connecting to the remote server or changes to the feed format. FireMapper will continue to display the cached data from the last successful update when an error occurs. The error state will automatically be cleared on the first successful update after the failure. More information about the live feed error can be obtained by contacting support.

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Viewing Individual Features

  1. Select the live feed from the table that you want to view.

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  2. Use the tab bar to switch between layer types if the live feed has more than one type.

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  3. You can select an individual feature in the table to view additional information

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  4. A dialog will appear for the selected feature. This will include a map preview and a list of all the attributes for the selected feature.

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  5. Click a field if you want to copy the value to the clipboard

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Downloading a Live Feed

You can export the latest version of live feed using the download button. This will generate a static file for the exported feed. All download formats are in the WSG-84 Datum (ESPG-4326).

  1. Click the Download button on the live feed that you want to download.

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  2. Select the export format that you would like to use from GPX, KML or GeoJSON, based on the application that you want to export to.

    Use the KML export format if you want to display the live feed in Google Earth Pro, ArcGIS Online, ArcGIS Pro or FireMapper client. The KML format is the only format that includes map symbology and links for Photos/PDFs file attachments.

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  3. Open the export file in the desired application (e.g. Google Earth Pro).

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