podskio/pulsepoint

Node.js wrapper for retrieving information from the PulsePoint API

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Getting Agency By Coordinates

Nice to see a project like this pop-up. I wrote something similar a few years back that was in a very early prototype state, but I wanted to share some things I found out.

First, the endpoint at "/DB/gabc.php" can take query string parameters of "lat" and "lng" for Latitude and Longitude, respectively. (e.g., "/DB/gabc.php?lat=33.99553&lng=-118.240144" What you get in return is an array of Agencies with their display name and some other info. For some reason this doesn't return the actual AgencyID, but it gives a different property just called "id". This endpoint needs the same decryption.

If you hit the endpoint at "/DB/GeolocationAgency.php" and pass the previously obtained "id", you get more Agency info including the "agencyId". (e.g., "DB/GeolocationAgency.php?id=400").

Not sure why they have it setup like this, but there's a lot of good info there, even a polygon for the coverage area if you wanna project this onto Google Maps or something.