Im down the road from the WA FESA administration / main Perth fire station. If people want to push this out beyond Vic & NSW, I'm happy to take a walk down there and see what interest i can get from them. Fires in Kings Park being lit by some serial arsonists have gotten people pretty vocal about fires being started and where so i wouldn't be surprised if there was interest here.
On 08/02/2009, at 8:39 PM, Andrew Boyd wrote: > On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Elias Bizannes <[email protected] > > wrote: > > Pamela Fox has just created a really useful mashup that shows the bush > fires in Australia. You can check it out and some of the lessons from > the experience on my blog: > http://liako.biz/2009/02/data-portability-allows-mashup-for-australian-bush-fire-crisis/ > > But as it turns out, only the Victorian bush fire service supports RSS > (the format enabling this mashup). > > Given this type of crisis happens every year in every state, we should > do something about it. > Does the community have access to people that can allow us to better > respond in the future without losing time? We can help bring them up > to date with modern data standards > > Elias, > > I have contacts in NSW SES at an area level and some local bush > fireys - suspect that it may take a bit of grass-roots action > (emergency services management are somewhat political and posessive). > > Happy to contribute to the project - hosting, promotion, whatever. > > I'm thinking overall natural disaster watch per state and federally, > with filters for fire/flood/cyclone-hurricane - as realtime as we > can make it, with maps for visualisation. > > Best regards, Andrew > > -- > --- > Andrew Boyd > http://uxaustralia.com.au -- UX Australia Conference Canberra 2009 > http://uxbookclub.org -- connect, read, discuss > http://govux.org -- the government user experience forum > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself: http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia/browse_thread/thread/99938a0fbc691eeb To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
