Map of Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Pipelines, Platforms
Matthew Baker sent me this great looking map and some good resources you can use to make your own maps to track the oil spill and oil infrastructure.
Click for larger view
Matt was able to get the data from the following sources:
The pipeline and platform data:
The past week’s data came from these KML files:
http://www.google.com/crisisresponse/oilspill/
Is anyone creating some mapping on their own tracking the spill and the response?
Update: Looks like ESRI has a resource site up and running.
it amazing how week old data show up on blogs. im looking at you greece. and you fee.
Why is NOAA, State of Louisiana, and the DOI waiting a week to put out the data?
Higher resolution here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/50065183@N06/4593362250/?addedcomment=1#comment72157624026835068
@ blackpoll_esri
Which data did you have to wait for? DOI/MMS has had their well and pipeline data available prior to this event. There is no NOAA data in your map. The State of Louisiana data is current for the most part in your map. Last check at their site, the projected trajectories go out to tomorrow.
was waiting for the oil slick data.
Why delay you ask? Didn’t Weather Channel ‘black-out’ during major hurricane last summer where over 12,000 people were swept away (mostly Vietnamese and Cambodian shrimpers, so they don’t count!), so why cover htis event? It’s only stupid manatees that will go because their too dumb to swim fast and shrip……Popeye’s will have to get more from Indonesia (where we get 70% anyway) and then they can whack more of those pesky mangroves……………..and pelicans, terns, dumb-ass seagulls…….less birds, more shrip when Gulf recovers! Gvernor Haley Barber of Mississippi said that nature will recover. He’s right. Look at Prince William S
Ha, Jack……….Retlands got Rawl-Mot to sell shhep shrip….on da bahbee!…..AArrggggg, aaarggggggg, heit! Rotch out for Canahdah infitrate esri…………………heit. Oril slit! No biggy, just use on greeell! Aaaarrggh, Gorgge Foremin……! esri.
So who cares if it’s current?
The folks who do locally get the data in real time – us outsiders looking in don’t need it in real time other than for curiosity factor. It’s not like our GIS views are going to be any more useful than the same map that’s in the ops centers in the State environmental offices. Or BP or the Feds or wherever.
This morning I received a link from a colegue to a website hosted by ESRI showing the “Disaster Response and Assistance | Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Assistance”:
http://mapapps.esri.com/disasters/oil-spill/gulf-2010/index.html
When you look at the links provided earlier in the posts, the map produced by ESRI (Educational Services) shows that ESRI has access to the temporal data of the oil spill. Why didn’t they use time-enabled layers web mapping application to show off the new AG10 functionality?
BTW: there is a ArcGIS Mobile blog as well on this topic:
http://blogs.esri.com/Dev/blogs/mobilecentral/archive/2010/05/09/Gulf-Oil-Spill-Response-_2D00_-Shoreline-Assessment-Forms.aspx
Xander
I don’t know!
They’re not wanting to use the Beta stuff for public consumption. Might have ‘an issue’ and people would think ESRI software has implementation and performance problems. Wouldn’t want that.
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