Community Efforts Mapping Fort Collins Colorado #HighParkFire

I always closely follow Colorado news and current events as I have a personal interest there and if you?ve been watching the news over the week-end no doubt you?ve heard about the out of control High Park wildfire (check out this video shot Sunday afternoon) ? see #highparkfire on Twitter. NOCO has an awesome GeoGeek community and loads of quality Geo Tech professionals, however, given that we?re dealing with the week-end here many of the official, authoritative sources have likely been scrambling and may even be difficult to locate. As a result, some of the techs that have been scrambling to scape data and mashup information to share with the local community in Fort Collins are having a tough time getting current data along with regular updates.? If you happen to be with a company that has access to aerial imagery, fire perimeter data, satellite imagery or other relevant data please contact one or more of the local geo professionals to see if there?s anything you can do to help out. Having real-time or almost real-time data for sharing with the public is crucial and has been very tough to come by.

Kris Peterson of Mapbiquity (@mapbiquity) has done a fine job building a WMS map mashup of the area and his wife Gretchen Peterson (@petersongis) is helping to update the evacuation areas map ? a crucial resource ? See the HighParkFire webmap on Mapbiquity

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If you have access to relevant information resources please feel free to contact myself @gletham or anyone else mentioned in this post. Other Geo/Tech Professionals in the area sharing information include:

• Royce Simpson @roycesimpson
• Dave Bouwman @dbouwman
• Rich Ruh @richruh
• Nick Armstrong @imnickarmstrong
• @cosmitty

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