Weather | Newstalk - Ireland's National Independent Talk Radio Broadcaster

Welcome to our interactive Weather Map. At Newstalk, we are taking a new approach to bringing you weather information. We are giving you a way to submit your own weather observations onto our interactive Weather Map below using your favorite social media channels. We hope this will provide real time insight into dynamic weather conversations, videos and photos as they happen across the map, locally here in Ireland or in response to global weather events.

If you would like to join in the weather conversation, simply post items to Twitter, YouTube or FlickR using the #weather tag and they will automatically display on the map. You will need to add a location to your items using the instructions below the map for the relevant social media platform so that we know where to position your observation.

To use the Weather Map, pan and zoom to your area of interest. Click on a social media icon to see Tweets, Video or Photo resources at a particular location.

Newstalk and Esri Ireland have been working together on a number of initiatives with the theme of "Everything happens somewhere". Combining broadcast media with the use and application of geographic information means Newstalk listeners can engage, interact and gain real insight into dynamic trends as they happen across the digital map. Visit www.esri-ireland.ie

Because tweeting with your location is disabled by default for everyone, you must enable this feature by following these steps:

Click on your Account Settings.
At the bottom of the page, check the box to "Add a location to your tweets", as shown below.
Save your changes.
If you Tweet from a SmartPhone you may be asked to "Use your current Location" please accept and proceed as normal.
Your Tweet will inherit your Location from your Smart Phone
If you prefer to Tweet from the web you can use our www.mapmytweet.com application to connect with Twitter and specify Locations for your Tweets

To add location and date information to your uploaded video, please follow the steps listed below:

Sign in to your YouTube account and click the Account link (in the upper right-hand corner of your page).
Under My Videos, click the Uploaded Videos link to go to your uploads.
Select the video to which you'd like to add date/location info. Now click the "Edit" button below the video.
Below the video, you'll see a "Data and map" section. Add the date that you recorded the video and/or the location where the video was recorded.
Don't forget to click the "Save Changes" button at the bottom of the page!

To geotag a photo on your photo page, simply click on "Add this photo to your map!" on the map (over on the right). (If the link is not visible, you can also find it in the actions menu.)

To work with more than one image you can open Organizr and find the photo(s) you want to place on the map using Findr. Click the Map tab. Then, go to a location where you took your photo(s) by using either the "Find Location" box in the top right of the tab or the pan/zoom tools to browse to the location. When you've found the location, drag the photo(s) from the Findr and drop it on the map.

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