Project Description
Imagine you want to go out for a picnic, fly a drone or train for state of origin. Is it a good day? Where should you go and how should you get there? Will there be trees there?
This online map covers many areas of Australia and combines many data sources you won't just find on Google or Bing Maps. Data includes air quality, current bushfires, weather current and historical, vegetation cover, heat island detection.
Combining this data into a single user interface required writing APIs change multiple data sources into common open formats that could be used in a webbrowser and did not take too long to load.
Credits:
Air particulate levels good/bad based on https://www.qld.gov.au/environment/pollution/monitoring/air/air-monitoring/air-quality-index but some datasets are used with current levels rather than 24 hour averages.
All emojis designed by OpenMoji โ the open-source emoji and icon project. License: CC BY-SA 4.0 https://github.com/hfg-gmuend/openmoji
Logo: Robot by Lluisa Iborra from the Noun Project https://thenounproject.com/search/?q=transformer&i=1182439
Data Story
Mashes up weather, air quality and bushfire incident data from many sources to provide a useful map of locations for outdoor activity.
The spatial data came in differing formats/column names and sometimes was too large to display. API proxies were created to convert each piece of data into a common format for display on the map.
Some of the conclusions drawn were that there are many areas that are consistently too hot and have little vegetation. Also during QLD bushfires, air quality can be very low making outdoor activities hard.