Compiling Ike Data

by KUMIKO YAMAZAKI on September 13, 2008 • map: • COMMENT

When you subscribe to over a dozen map blogs, you learn a few things. Yesterday I learned from FortiusOne that NOAA provides updated GIS data (Hurricane Ike) free to the public.

So the morning was spent compiling some of the data and creating my own simple map of Ike. It took a couple hours but this was due to my indecisions regarding uDig vs. Quantum GIS.

The map shows the possible hurricane track over the next 3 days and also storm force wind speed probabilities down south. Also added were some urban areas seen in yellow and major cities.

Looking back I should have included cities such as St. Louis and Indianapolis that are in direct path of the storm’s track but all I did was a search query based on population data. Darn computers can’t do it all!