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Devil Lu Linvega

To find out where the forest forest fires are in Canada, you have two options:
- A twitter account, that requires you to sign in to access.
- A javascript heavy map that takes forever to load, and will 50/50 crash the pinebook

This is pretty great.

14 comments
margot

@neauoire there's something similar here in washington state, in order to see the evacuation (!!) map you have to either sign up with an account through apple or google, microsoft or yahoo: cohost.org/iliana/post/2240028

Devil Lu Linvega

@emaytch lucky you'll never be in a hurry when needing to access that information.

Gabriel Pettier

@neauoire i know this shouldn't be needed, but is nitter (for example nitter.nl/) fine to access the twitter account unlogged?

Gabriel Pettier

@neauoire uh, it shouldn't look like that at all, did you disable js or something?

Florian

@neauoire I've been in canada for only a year and half, so I'm definitely ignorant in that regard, but is the 2nd one you're mentioning firesmoke.ca/ ?

If not, their FAQ provide a technical description of their system and source; would that help? firesmoke.ca/resources/bsc-201

Devil Lu Linvega

@florian That's the site yes, the information needed for this isn't included in that pdf(that I recall), but in the bluesky API docs, which unfortunately don't work too well on my system atm. I'm hoping that I can look into it this winter when we have more bandwidth

Florian

@neauoire ah, alright, sorry I couldn't help; and thanks for the clarification!

phisch

@neauoire this should (easily) made available via a stupid APIs that gives a json as response or better in an osm-like format.
I don't get why this isn't the main way of propagating this kind of information

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