iDelft completed today an incident Application Programming Interface (API) for a customer in The Netherlands. With this API it is possible for everyone to read and process incident messages from the Security Region Veiligheidsregio Noord-Holland Noord. A news paper organisation can in this way automatically publish reliable information from the region North Holland. European regulations require (semi)-governmental organisations to publish relevant and public information in a way that the information can be reused to the maximum extent. The following page shows the various filter- and display capabilities of the VRNHN API, including a so-called ticker tape with incident messages.
Sample page API for incidents published by VRNHN
VRNHN API-documentation is avaliable as well.
The API helps VRNHN to comply with the EU 2019/1024 regulation for open data and reuse of public information.