Global Emergencies is microsite designed by Development Seed visualizing global emergency data from UNHCR. Available at http://unhcr.github.com/global-emergencies.
For running the site locally and updating data.
Use Ruby Gem to install:
For updating site and maps
# This will check out the site from the remote repository on
# GitHub and place it in a local directory named unhcr-emergencies/
git clone https://github.com/unhcr/global-emergencies.git
# Your site should now be here:
ls global-emergencies/
cd global-emergencies/
jekyll
Point browser to http://0.0.0.0:4000/global-emergencies
The site can be entirely updated from the command line. It is recommended to review changes locally before pushing them live.
The update script has been written to process the data and then render and upload all maps automatically. Each part of the script can be run individually.
cd global-emergencies/
cd bin/
./update.sh