Victoria: Fire Ready!
- Created by
- Harshit Sekhon and Jarrod Testro
- data.australia.gov.au datasets used
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Police Station Locations (VIC) (Only partial list coded for plotting on the map)
Victoria:FireReady is designed to provide information pertinent to fires (bushfires in particular) around Victoria. It is meant to be used as a planning tool to be prepared for an untoward fire incident. It plots the weather and fire hazard information, provided by the Bureau of Meteorology, in a visually discernible way. Furthermore, fire brigade and police station locations are also plotted within a 45KM radius from the desired location. Radial distance overlays (circles) are shown on the map to get a vague idea about the aforementioned emergency services’ best case response times. To get a better idea routes can be plotted to/from the emergency service’s location. Additionally, the most up to date fire incidents provided by the CFA are presented in a colour coded manner.
The combination of fire incidents, severe weather conditions and the proximity of emergency services should give anyone tracking fires across Victoria an overall picture of the situation at hand. Most importantly communities in regional Victoria should benefit from the use of this service the most coupled with first hand information provided by concerned authorities.
Yet to come: Road closures and consequently theoretical re-routing of paths from emergency services to the user’s location to get the best possible estimate of best case response time.
Cool app.
Where can I find the feed that you are using to display fire incidents in victoria?
this is great
Thank you Karen and Jon for the appreciation!
Jon, the CFA fire incident summary can be found here http://www.cfa.vic.gov.au/incidents/incident_summary_rss.xml
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This post was mentioned on Twitter by hssekhon: My mashup is online on the Australian Gov Taskforce site http://bit.ly/4Dkfnw, head over and vote for it (please!)…
If a bit of effort can save lives, that will be your pay back to the humanity. Wonderful attempt. Wish many people apply this to avoid another Black saturday. Kudos !!
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This post was mentioned on Twitter by hssekhon: @paulberesford you might like to keep a watch for bushfires here http://bit.ly/EZd7W Vote for it if you find it useful! Cheers!…
Very encouraging to see the hard work put in. It is giving back the humanity what you have received in Life. Love, concern and being a beautiful person. Kudos
250 votes in 5 days.
The top app has 240 votes over a month.
Again I smell something bad.
Hang on since I posted it has gone up to 300 votes in 7 minutes.
Good work
Gerad, A little advertising on twitter and facebook helps!
Care to reply Harshit?
Have a look at your previous post Gerad!
Thanks for the tip!
This is a really powerful tool. It would be great if this competition can encourage states to work together to provide national emergency reporting tools for the public. How many fires have we seen recently that occur on state borders? Ensuring people have the same information on fires and services in NSW and Vic would be very useful for Albury residents, for example.
Great work and thank you for the comments on iNation!
Lisa you’ve raised a valid point about border incidents. I would have liked to see a more holistic dataset, however, I guess the concept needs to be proven before more can be expected out of the respective state governments.
Exactly! And this is what this competition is encouraging. Well done again!
Update: The description for the mashup has been revised for a better explanation of the intent and features.
1. Firstly, as I said, in the other posts I have no entries for this competition. –> implies my view is relatively balanced without bias.
2. Secondly, I believe there are some cheating (soft cheat) on this. Why I said this –> A large amount of votes within minutes up for this one while a large amount of votes down for the others one. –> The good thing for this one is that I can post my views
3. Thirdly, this is a good mashup topic but definitely far from a good marshup or even it is a poor mashup compared with
. okSchool Explorer (Victoria)
. GCI PhotoHUB
. Suburban Trends
. Fridgemate
. NSW Crime Explorer
4. I hope the judges are fair
. to view IP addresses of those votes to identify they are genuine instead of a small number of self voting. (I mean those who cheat should not even be regarded as people’s choice)
. to have a expert panels view of the mashups as there are not many entries one by one mashup review is possible.
based on
— ideas
— creativity
— design quality
— technical efforts
— etc…