Using DataBC, DriveBC, and the BC Wildfire Services data, I’ve cobbled together the first version of in a couple of hours. The underlying philosophy is that public data can be used for the common good by the private sector, developers, data journalists, and others. Open DataĪn on-the-nose name, Open Data is created when varying levels of government, organizations, and agencies open up their stores of information to developers for use in products or projects. Luckily, these sources all have equivalent open data endpoints available. There is no single consumable overview of this scatter of information, it’s too much for a crisis situation. Fire locations (especially the one threatening my parent's home) via the BC Wildfire Service Active Wildfires map (which was suffering periodic outages due to load).Evacuation Alerts and Orders from EmergencyInfoBC (Twitter: ).Road closures due to fires on DriveBC (Twitter: ).While trying to find my parents via relatives on Facebook, I’m swamped within 15 minutes of attempting to create safe route options from the three main resources: Thus begins a crash course in crisis information management and open data, leading to some key lessons, and. With no way to contact them, I begin wading through crisis information scattered across multiple government websites to find safe route options for my folks for when we connect. I leave a message to let them know about the evacuation, and that I’m assuming they’re on the road. My parent’s home phone rings, but there’s no answer. I, surrounded by connectivity, have discovered an evacuation order for their area at 8:00 PM - it had been posted online at 2:09 PM. I’ve run headfirst into the internet connectivity divide my parents, located north of Williams Lake near Soda Creek have been put under Evacuation Order - they do not have internet. Mapping Wildfires - British Columbia 2017
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