As a meteorologist deployed to wildfires I would find it very useful if I could overlay wildfire perimeters. There are several national GIS feeds that update daily, but not in a placefile format for GR2. I can do it manually and create a placefile, but an updating placefile would be nice.
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Ryan Hickman Official comment This has been completed. Currently it is only a line (boundary) but may be upgraded to a customizable polygon in the future.
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Ryan Hickman Matthew,
Please provide a URL for the perimeter data. I can take KML and GeoJSON, or write a custom decoder if the data isn't available in those formats.
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Matthew Mehle Ryan,
Here is a general link to all GIS services https://www.geomac.gov/services.shtml
Here is a dynamic KML
https://rmgsc.cr.usgs.gov/outgoing/GeoMAC/ActiveFirePerimeters.kml
I'm looking for just a fire perimeter. Something like this
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Matthew Mehle Ryan,
I am deployed to another wildfire in NorCal and loaded in the placefile. It plots fire perimeters, but they appear to be old. Last update was August 22. Does this placefile auto-update?
Thanks,
Matt
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Ryan Hickman Matt,
Yes, the data updates every 15 minutes (I don't know how often the raw data updates) and the Gibson Ridge feed refreshes every 30 minutes. Here's a fire from the 28th. The entire database is wiped and replaced with the data from ActiveFirePerimeters.kml
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Matthew Mehle Ryan,
Thanks for the follow up. It appears that some fires update on the placefile, but not all. I found a few fires from 9/1/2017. See attached image. The fire near Weaverville had a crazy perimeter line and no new fires after that. The spot with the red X should have a fire there, but it never made it into the placefile. You can see the fire perimeter in the Google Earth window.
Thanks again for your support and customer service.
Matt
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