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Wildfire by DisasterRadio.orgGIS maps stimulate social networking,

geo-tweets, crowd-source info

Mark Zaller

[email protected]

• Updated detailed GIS maps, a lure that fulfills

• Easy for neophytes, depth for sophisticated

• Stimulate social networking, calms & informs

• Force Geo-tweets, maps those at risk

• Data-mining for Crowd-Sourced info to IC

Core Functions

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GIS to the peopleevolved from AirborneGIS

• GeoMAC.gov Fresh fire perimeters

• Autonomous: no moderator or input

• Scales small. 1st person – 1st time

• Minimize bandwidth, offline resilient

Everybody wants to know where the fire is Wildfire by DisasterRadio.org

Wildfire ScreenShot

Wildfire ScreenShot

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Click to see 1 min YouTube Demo of AirBorneGIS in use over fires that DisasterRaido evolved from for Civilians

Twitter for fire

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• Define #hashtag to firename

• Easy: Attract novices-satisfy veterans

– Eventually voice enabled and more

• Encourage guided conversation

• People get Info & Participation

• Public Safety announcements

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Wildfire ScreenShot

Geo-enabled Tweets

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• GPS is precise - cell towers ok

• See each other, band up to help

• Whose left behind, lost, at risk

• IC gets map of people locations

Safer Perimeters

• Distant people are affected

• Supply info to the worried

• Attract help & aide

• Donate, Gawk, Volunteer

• Encourage safe distance

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Crowd Sourced data

• People locations help IC

• Analysts data-mine CrowdSource

• Ushahidi can create structure

• Who in IC team will accept data?

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CalFire reluctant to release current maps Crowd-source value encourages new maps

Locate Family & Friends (mashup)

Escape Routingaround closures

Alert! Hurt! Find Me! Lost!

Voice RecognitionTTS - Translate

Scroll NewsEmergency Radio

Volunteer-Donate

I have / I need

Geo-LocatedVideo & Photos

DisasterRadioCross Platform

Add-ons & options

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Issues - Concerns

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• Alert! Hurt! Find Me! Lost! Who is listening? Too easy? Enable when staffed, priority tweet, Populate your own emergency contacts, better than nothing

• 911 simply dials phone, Are you Sure? Disclaimers

• Help get people to follow evacuations

• Could burglars/looters use it?

Can’t address all concerns at first. Planning reduces issues & more prepared for the unexpected

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What’s next?

• Funding to Release It! fix, evolve & iterate

• Keeping it alive: Profitable, funding, monetizing, subscription– Winning hack-a-thons isn’t software engineering

• Strategy, Vision & Tactics– Cross disciplinary governing board, crowd-source, organization

• Need a Team: Paid, Open-Source/GitHub, Volunteer, Non-profit, Crisis-Mappers, University, Agency, board of experts

• Other disasters: Floods, earthquakes, heat waves, outages

Wildfire by DisasterRadio.org

Wildfire by DisasterRadio.org

Funding needed

Mark Zaller

[email protected]

Tactical GIS for ground firefighters

Backup slide

• Moving-Map GIS on iPhone/iPads now

– Get ATT or Verizon version, but service not needed

• Offline: Base topos, daily Fire GIS

– Safety – Fire Lines- Road Names

– Fire Point – Division Breaks

– Wifi updating during breakfast in firecamp/motel

– No 3G needed

• iOS software on Apple Apps Store now

– Avenza PDF Maps uses standard Fire PDFs

– Gaia GPS, free but paid is better