The High Park wildfire quadrupled it's size overnight. Click on the image to view full size.
The US Forest Service published the latest data on the size of the High Park fire at 06:52AM and I immediately turned it into a map showing the huge increase in this uncontrolled wildfire. This fire has the potential for enormous damage due to the amount of development and infrastructure in the mountains west of Fort Collins and along the Colorado Highway 14 corridor. To make it even worse, Colorado is competing with fires in other states for scarce fire-fighting resources.
The mission of Black Ice Geospatial LLC is to produce better ways to view vital resources to facilitate the best possible decisions and actions for individuals and communities. Hidden data is of no value, so we Visualize Unseen Information © to reveal what you need to know.
That’s a great map. Where did you find the data? I have searched all over the USFS site to no avail.
BTW, it seems like you could add some more information in the ‘About Black Ice’ section of the web page and maybe have some ‘Contact Info’ so people could contact you if they wanted some work done.
Thank you, Grant, our goal is to produce great maps. The best place for public information is http://www.inciweb.org. It has key information, but we felt that we could make a more integrated presentation that would help people with critical decisions, so Black Ice was tooled up for that purpose. Watch us closely, this effort will be expanded as quickly as possible.
the amount of blogs on the internet is increasing, and they’re about lots of subjects. in the middle of so many of them, is your blog which i found to be very useful for everybody.
This information is very valuable and useful to us in the public. We cannot find accurate and timely maps like this anywhere else. Keep up the good work!
I don’t know much about your company yet, but your High Park maps are tremendous and very helpful. Thank you for taking the time to make a great and useful product for the community during this crisis. Thanks.
We are trying to take geospatial analysis to a different level. The premise is simple: Integrate data to present information that people can easily understand and use.