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This page contains information for people maintaining the maps on the Interactive Maps page that is part of the Hurricane Information Center web site.

Contents 1 To Do 2 Team Links 3 Google Map Resources 4 Join the Team 5 Guidelines for Map Editors 6 Regional Map Pages 7 See also

To Do

To Do's are in priority order. Edit this page to put your name by a task if you want to take the lead on that item. Use the link by each task to go to the map for editing. Use the Discussion tab at the top of this page for news, ideas, etc.

• Add data points to the Ike Damages Google Map

Quality Control

• Check links on all our maps and pages and fix bad links or report them to the map team mail list.

Composite maps:

• Ike Hurricane Map aggregate (Andrew T)
• Aggregate all these Google maps with a hurricane track feed (Andrew T)

Imagery

• NOAA has started overflights. JPGs and world files available at http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/gustav/. The easiest way to work with these is to install mapserver, configure to work with these rasters, and throw TileCache in front. Then this imagery is usable in any web mapping API.

Other Tasks:

• find KLM or GeoRSS feeds that might be useful to incorporate into one of our maps - add links to GeoRSS data feeds page.

At the appropriate time:

Other Maps:

• Create a new Google map for a topic not covered and add it to the Interactive Maps Contents page

Team Links

The Interactive Maps team maintains a set of maps - each map represents points of interest for a specific subject (shelters, evacuation routes, local news sources, etc). There is only one Google map for each subject but links to that map will zoom in to an appropriate area for a specific storm. A user can use any map link then scroll or zoom out to see other areas. Anyone can edit any map via any of the links. In some cases a composit map may combine several subject maps onto one map as layers that the user can turn on or off. Interactive

• List of Google Maps maintained by the Wiki Maps Team
• List of GeoRSS data feeds that can be used in maps
• List of all pages in category maps
• Table of Contents of Map Team pages on this wiki
• List of Approved Categories
• Wiki page statistics list of most viewed pages
• Maps Sandbox testing page
• Wikipedia Cheatsheet one page for everything you need to know to be a Wiki author

Google Map Resources

• Google Maps Mania independent help with map tools, mashups and applications
• Google Maps users group
• Google Maps API users group

Join the Team

Anyone can help us edit these maps and the other reference pages. If you want to join the team to help us coordinate everyone's efforts you can also sign-up on the master "Who Is Doing What" list and join our mail list.

• Who Is Doing What List of members of all teams - add your contact info to this page
• Map Team Mail List join the mail distribution list (Google Group)
  • Send email to the Maps Team hurricane-info-center-maps-team@googlegroups.com
• MediaWiki Handbook read about editing Wiki pages

Guidelines for Map Editors

• ZOOM IN! (The default zoom is far out to let people most easily get to the area they are interested in; the map will be very hard to use unless you first zoom in using the slider on the map).
• Include identifying information about the location you post storm/flood information, especially when you refer to general areas. Always include the DATE and TIME at the end of the marker text. (i.e. 1 Sept 2008 12:30 CST)
• Consider what would be most useful for the people looking at your information.

Regional Map Pages

These pages correspond to Wiki categories in the Geography section. Some of these pages have not yet been created

• Interactive Maps - Gulf Coast states
• Interactive Maps - Atlantic coast south states
• Interactive Maps - Atlantic coast north states
• Interactive Maps - Midwest states
• Interactive Maps - Northwest states
• Interactive Maps - New England states
• Interactive Maps - South Central states
• Interactive Maps - Mountain West states
• Interactive Maps - Pacific states

• Interactive Maps - Caribbean
• Interactive Maps - Atlantic Ocean
• Interactive Maps - Pacific Ocean

See also

• Hurricane Ike GIS Resources - This page was created on wikipedia and moved here. Content is closely related to this page.

Map Table of Contents
Interactive Maps	Storm Maps | United States Maps | Caribbean Maps
Storm maps	Ike 2008 Maps | Hanna 2008 Maps | Gustav 2008 Maps
Regional maps	Interactive Maps - Gulf Coast states | Interactive Maps - Atlantic coast south states
See also	Category:Maps