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Ryo Kawaguchi edited this page Mar 14, 2015 · 2 revisions

Person Finder is a searchable missing person database written in Python and hosted on App Engine.

Person Finder implements the PFIF data model and provides PFIF import and export as well as PFIF Atom feeds. It was initially created by Google volunteers in response to the Haiti earthquake in January 2010, and today contains contributions from many volunteers inside and outside of Google. It was used again for the earthquakes in Chile, Yushu, and Japan, and now runs at http://google.org/personfinder/.

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Developers

  • Want to customize or improve Person Finder? See the DeveloperGuide.
  • Want to embed Person Finder on your own site? See Embedding.
  • Want to download from or upload into Person Finder? See DataAPI and RepositoryFeed.
  • Want to launch your own Person Finder site? See Launching.

There is a public test instance of Person Finder available at http://test.googlepersonfinder.appspot.com/.

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