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February 7, 2009
fires started sat 7 feb
still danger a week+ later
some fires burned a month
many fires, across the state
up to date information
official sourcesCountry Fire Authority:
private landswww.cfa.vic.gov.au
Dept of Sustainability and Environment:public lands
www.dse.vic.gov.au
problem #1
server load
500 Server Error
problem #2
locating these places
siblinglives here
friendʼs elderlyparents here
friend liveshere
but where are the fires?
who needs to know?people in danger
friends and family
people followingthe news
sunday morning
started thinking weshould do something
version one
process CFA RSS feed
geocode locations
publish as an interactive map
version two
automate geocoding
auto-refresh the map
search, links to relief agencies
slight issue
Fire service data not always clean
“5KM SE WARBUTON TRK”
step three
satellite imagery
NASA MODIS
TERRA and AQUA
250m resolution
daily coverage
IR detectors
rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov
polar orbitonline withina few hours
made mapembeddable
news sites
peak:8M map views/day
sustained:60 hits/sec
blog postshomepage promo
benefits
better understanding of the fire scale
took load off fire service websites
reassurance for the worried
enable people to reuseyour data
lesson
geocoded RSS ➙ maps=
map of family/friends
going forward
geocoded RSS
moreplease
more than fires
geo spatialinformation
conveys vitalinformation
alertsevacuations
disasters
how to ensure accuracy, timeliness?
very real concern fordisaster-relief agencies
create clear license
lay out terms for re-use
timeliness
attribution
links
for instance
structure
attach times to data
attach locations to data
use georss
prevent misuse selectively
e.g. limit precision locating urban fires
you arenʼt the only one with a use for
your data
open data
especially when livesmay depend on it
