Oct 23, 2007 at 11:16am ET by Danny Sullivan
I’m back home (my original home) in Southern California for vacation, and to welcome me back, the Southland is on fire. Ah, just like old times. As I was keeping up with the news, I came across some maps online from Google Earth, Google Maps, Virtual Earth, and elsewhere that I thought I’d share with others.
NOTE: FOR NOVEMBER 2008 FIRES IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, SEE OUR Maps Of Fires In Southern California: November 2008 Edition post.
My, how things have changed. I was a graphics reporter in the area during the big Laguna Beach fire of 1994, with my job specifically to map the spread of that fire. I had to do it the old fashioned way — talk to the firefighters and later actually drive through the area neighborhood-by-neighborhood. Today, interactive maps are easily at hand through the resources of the web.
Postscript: A few more resources since the above was compiled:
Postscript 2: Podcast: California Fire Maps - How Can We Do Better? from Directions Magazine looks to be a nice after-the-fact analysis of how maps were created and used.
Postscript 3: See also our Malibu Corral Fire Maps: Burn Area, Evacuation Centers & More post for maps of the fires that hit in late November 2007.
Postscript 4: See June 2008 California Fire Maps for wildfires in Northern California.
Postscript 5: See Los Angeles & Southern California Fire Maps: October 2008 Edition for fires in Southern California during mid-October 2008.
Postscript 6: See Maps Of Fires In Southern California: November 2008 Edition for first during that month.
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