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Here's an interactive map with the same data. Double-click anywhere to get the annual precipitation for an exact location:

www.femafhz.com/map/48.62379...
November 12, 2025 at 5:37 PM
GDAL CLI version 3.12.0 is out!

#gdal #gis #MtHood
November 12, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Comparison of NBM QPF (precipitation) forecast model vs actual QPF amounts, for 2 events, Oct 24-27 and Nov 04-06 2025 along the California north coast. Consistency is an issue. @nws.noaa.gov #weather #california
November 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
National Risk Index, Riverine Flooding - Expected Annual Loss Rate - National Percentile shown. Choose category by state, county or census tract #polygons.

www.femafhz.com/map/35.13787...

#30DayMapChallenge
November 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Using PostGIS ST_LineInterpolatePoints to evenly get points from line features (roads) and ST_ClusterDBScan to get (mostly) non-overlapping points for road shields on interactive map.

Using only st_clusterdbscan for non-overlaping GNIS place names.

#30DayMapChallenge #points #postgis #leafletjs
November 1, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Here's a National Risk Index map for those disasters, except interactive, at state, county, census tract level for 24 different categories and 20+ metrics, percentile, expected annual loss, etc ,etc. 2022 data.

Riverine Flooding shown:
www.femafhz.com/map/36.98500...
October 27, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Fully interactive map of #Melissa, with the most up-to-date NHC data:

www.femafhz.com/map/19.43551...
October 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Here's the same result using only #GDAL, cutting out the python nastiness:

Simplify:
gdal vector simplify --input=states.gpkg --tolerance=.5 --output=simple.gpkg

Clean coverage:
gdal vector clean-coverage --input=simple.gpkg --snapping-distance=.7 --output=clleaned.gpkg
October 26, 2025 at 5:46 PM
#Melissa Cat 2-4, Sun 8am to Tues 8am, with Jamaica on the right hand side of the storm, 50km away. Brutal.

www.femafhz.com/map/17.66233...
October 23, 2025 at 4:34 PM
"GeoParquet file plonked on a web server" is disingenuous. Only Spark/SedonaDB query by polygon/attribute, requiring HDFS.

Examples DuckDB, GeoPandas, GDAL all use bbox. With FGB you don't need any of that. Overture 145M buildings, single 35GB FGB remote web server:

www.femafhz.com/map/26.90634...
October 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Modern Python:
October 9, 2025 at 4:44 PM
According to Bureau of Reclamation, Powell has a 10% chance of 'minimum power pool' for 2027/28/30. 3% chance for 2029.

Mead has 7% chance for 2029, 3% for 2030, otherwise 0%.

www.usbr.gov/lc/region/g4...
October 9, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Interactive map, always the latest info:
www.femafhz.com/map/27.32653...
October 8, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Always current interactive map, tracks, intensity, wind fields, watches & warnings, etc:

www.femafhz.com/map/38.03078...
September 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Always current interactive map, tracks, intensity, wind fields, watches & warnings, etc:
www.femafhz.com/map/38.03078...
September 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
Stay tuned! Always current interactive map:

femafhz.com/map/33.39475...

#Invest94L
September 26, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Per the #PCTA:

"The Trump Administration this week formally announced its intention to roll back longstanding protections for Inventoried Roadless Areas in National Forests..."
www.pcta.org/2025/scrappi...

Map for all trails, layers->Protected Areas->Roadless Areas:
www.postholer.com/trail-maps
September 5, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Interactive with flood, risk & tons more:
www.femafhz.com/map/37.84965...
September 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Hmmm....
September 4, 2025 at 6:23 AM
September 3, 2025 at 9:12 PM
September 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
A peculiar whale breaching in the Indian Ocean. ;)

x.com/SpaceX/statu...
August 28, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Hurricane #Erin at noon-ish, eastern. It's getting quite large.

www.femafhz.com/map/31.24170...
August 20, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Hurricane #Erin intensifies to category 5 in record time.
www.femafhz.com/map/26.80446...
August 16, 2025 at 6:24 PM
The northern 3rd of the #PacificCrestTrail is gonna see some significant rain. Get a current forecast and tread carefully!

www.postholer.com/map/Pacific-...
August 15, 2025 at 3:24 AM