Hurricane Florence – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Tue, 02 Oct 2018 22:59:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg Hurricane Florence – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 When Mobile Maps Can’t Keep Up with Road Closures https://www.maproomblog.com/2018/10/when-mobile-maps-cant-keep-up-with-road-closures/ Tue, 02 Oct 2018 22:59:47 +0000 https://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1786339 More]]> During a natural disaster like Hurricane Florence, crisis maps can be an invaluable source of information about road and bridge closures and other infrastructure outages. Trouble is, that information doesn’t always trickle down to mobile phones, which is where most people get their maps. (Especially when authorities have trouble keeping up with road closures on their own maps.) CityLab’s Clare Tran explores this question, looking at, for example, how Waze incorporates road closure data from Esri and its volunteers.

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Hurricane Florence: A Link Roundup https://www.maproomblog.com/2018/09/hurricane-florence-a-link-roundup/ Fri, 14 Sep 2018 17:34:22 +0000 https://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1786253 More]]>
Hurricane Florence on 12 September 2018, as seen by NASA’s Terra Satellite.

The Washington Post has maps tracking Hurricane Florence’s forecasted path and its potential impact. Researcher Eira Tansey compiled data from several NOAA sources—hurricane track forecasting, potential storm surge flooding and long-duration hazards—to create this map.

A variety of NASA imagery of the storm is available via this Twitter moment. The eye of the storm can be viewed on Google Earth’s Current Weather Radar layer (Chrome-only).

Direct Relief’s Hurricane Florence Social Vulnerability Dashboard shows the extent to which the population in Florence’s path will be disproportionately affected by the storm. As CityLab’s Nicole Javorksy explains, while coastal areas will be hit hardest, residents there are more affluent; socioeconomic status, age, disability status, car ownership can all determine one’s ability to endure or recover from a storm.

The New York Times maps the environmental hazards in Florence’s path: “ponds of coal ash, Superfund sites, chemical plants—and thousands of industrial hog farms with lagoons filled with pig waste.” All have the potential to cause widespread contamination if flooded.

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