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Show HN: Firemaps Spain – Live wildfire map with wind flow for ES and PT

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Re: Show HN: Firemaps Spain – Live wildfire map with wind flow for ES and PT

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great job, great effort! for a second I imagined the firefighters being lost between flames and winds and not knowing or understanding directions well and then opening your app and figuring it out :)

I really appreciate you taking the time to write down your impression. Getting the OpenMeteo data to read that clearly took some doing, but credit to them, they've put a lot of work into it. The real challenge for me was the 10,000 free calls they give you (it's per IP, so everyone gets their own daily allowance for the wind data in their own browser, for free... I obviously wasn't going to pay a cent, haha). It wasn't a big deal in the end, to be honest.

Re: Show HN: Firemaps Spain – Live wildfire map with wind flow for ES and PT

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post #3

Great job. The dark background version is particularly illustrative. Winds are not easy to spot in the satellite map.

You were right, specially in mobile resolutions. I've finished few changes to improve the visualization of the wind in Satelite theme. Thanks a lot for the feedback mate!

Re: Show HN: Firemaps Spain – Live wildfire map with wind flow for ES and PT

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post #4

The AI-generated thumbnail that is embedded is social media posts is in particular poor taste. It appears to show most of France in a blaze of death. All the while showing Portugal as not having a single fire at all. I understand you might be focused on Spain, and that’s fine. But please understand that people are dying or losing everything, and being a tad sensitive to that could go a long way.

hey, I've changed the image for a real screenshot of my own map. Thanks for the feedback

Re: Show HN: Firemaps Spain – Live wildfire map with wind flow for ES and PT

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post #4

The AI-generated thumbnail that is embedded is social media posts is in particular poor taste. It appears to show most of France in a blaze of death. All the while showing Portugal as not having a single fire at all. I understand you might be focused on Spain, and that’s fine. But please understand that people are dying or losing everything, and being a tad sensitive to that could go a long way.

hey, I've changed the image for a real screenshot of my own map. Thanks for the feedback

Thanks. I appreciate you making the effort. This was kind of the response I expected. Not sure what happened in the other thread.
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