medcom.id, Jakarta: Twitter, in cooperation with Jakarta Provincial Government and SMART Infrastructure Facility from the Wollonglong University, Australia, officially launched the latest version of PetaJakarta.org, or PetaJakarta 2.0 on Tuesday (12/25/2015).
With the new additional features, PetaJakarta 2.0 is a site enabling flood mapping based in the reports of the public through Twitter.
"On the lasted version, we have added more features on PetaJakarta.org. One of them is allowing the visitors of PetaJakarta.org to see the heights of the water in various flooded areas and water gates," mentioned Dr. Thomas Holderness, the Co-Director of PetaJakarta.org.
Another feature in the PetaJakarta 2.0 is allowing users to see the flood warning status in various water gates in Jakarta. Not only that, the height of the water and other informations are available on real time.
As with the previous version, PetaJakarta 2.0 is still relying on the users of Twitter to map the floods in Jakarta. Every Twitter user caught in the flood may send a tweet to @petajkt with #banjir hashtag.
From the tweets submitted by the netizens, the system of PetaJakarta 2.0 will analyze the data and map it real time.
Despite being very effective, the site PetaJakarta.org is still facing several challenges. One of its biggest challenge is to invite the public to to report quickly should flooding in certain areas of Jakarta occurs.
Responding to that issue, the Country Business Head of Twitter Indonesia, Roy Simangunsong is inviting Twitter users to be more active in reporting certain occasions, especially the flooding.
"Your tweet on flooding will assist many people. So I recommend to the Twitter users to report various occurrence in their surrounding through Twitter," Roy mentioned.
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