Does the "coned" gem use some public API that ConEd has, or does it just scrape their web site?
Note: "burough" should be "borough".
http://apps.coned.com/stormcenter_external/stormcenter_externaldata/data/interval_generation_data/metadata.xml
http://apps.coned.com//stormcenter_external/stormcenter_externaldata/data/interval_generation_data/2012_11_03_20_45_00/report.js
I've done a rudimentary version of jpetterson's at http://stormpox.com (much less pretty). I'm running a rake task that gets called via cron job. The rake task fetches and parses the feed (via the sandy gem) and posts it to a google spreadsheet via the google_drive API. stormpox.com is running as a static site on heroku with an embedded google timeline chart that auto-updates when the spreadsheet changes, and voila, insta-outage-chart (albeit google branded).
The code for the stormpox.com backend is at https://github.com/ckundo/coned_charts.
The sandy gem (previously the coned gem) is on rubygems and here: https://github.com/ckundo/sandy
Again great work jpetterson!
The coned gem (now https://github.com/ckundo/sandy) is craping data from the official Coned storm central site.
(Thanks, I fixed the typo. As a native Swedish speaker borough is one of those words that make no sense.)
https://github.com/ckundo/coned/blob/master/lib/coned.rb#L12
Looking at the ConEd official power outage map, they list roughly 10,000 people in Manhattan without power.
I've decided to trust the sum of the individual sub areas instead, working on a fix.
How did you get google to serve up a white tileset? Or did you generate your own?
Turn the saturation down. This was found with 10 seconds worth of searching by the way.
Thanks for the link, less so for the snark!
I guess the bigger criticism is...the map view could use some work and given the non-officialness of neighborhood boundaries, maybe a map view isn't the most useful?