wildfires – EAST® GeoTalk / Geospatial discussion for facilitators and students Tue, 19 Oct 2021 16:58:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.1 /wp-content/uploads/2019/11/cropped-EAST_Logo_2c_Horz-32x32.png wildfires – EAST® GeoTalk / 32 32 How large are the Western wildfires? /how-large-are-the-western-wildfires/ Tue, 15 Sep 2020 14:56:44 +0000 /?p=245 NBC News built a cool little app that allows you to superimpose the areas burnt by each of the major wildfires on top of your own city, so that you can get a true sense of just how large these fires really are. Check it out at https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/map-compare-west-coast-wildfires-2020-n1240011 . You may notice in my sample image (above) that some of the basemap tiles have not finished loading – I’m guessing that they were getting hit pretty hard when I grabbed my image.

Does this give you any ideas for your own app? A few years ago, I helped an EAST student demonstrate how much more damage might have occurred from the EF4 tornado that hit Vilonia if it had instead been a few miles further east, in a much more populated area. It was a useful project that made an impression on local officials and emergency managers.

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