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Standard symbols in mapping wildland fires facilitates fast and consistent interpretation of mapping products and helps prevent ambiguous map interpretation, which can become a safety issue during an incident.
22 Ιαν 2024 · The use of standard symbols in mapping wildland fires facilitates fast and consistent interpretation of mapping products and helps prevent ambiguous map interpretation, which can become a safety issue during an incident.
Your map now has the wildfire data symbolized with custom marker symbols that tell the map reader what kind and size of fire each one is. There are two more pieces of information that you want to convey: the name of each fire, and the perimeter of the burned area.
Simply put, the symbols are mostly tailored to the needs of the wildland fire community, fire service, and in some cases the symbols don’t work when scaled from strategic to tactical map products. There are common features in the symbology for features that relate to “all-hazard” such as a Command Post, Base, and Staging, but it mainly ...
30 Δεκ 2021 · You may have seen new symbols on wildfire maps this year. That is because the National Wildfire Coordinating Group approved new symbology again, this time for the 2022 fire season.
Maps are the primary tools by which spatial relationships and geographic data are visualized. The use of standard map elements provides critical information to facilitate the fast and consistent interpretation of map products and ensures that the most appropriate and current map is used.
Wildland Fire Incident Management Field Guide (PMS 210) replaced the 2004 NWCG Fireline Handbook (PMS 410-1), which had displayed the primary map symbols for incident maps. The 2014 field guide (while displaying some symbols) notes that GSTOP is now the source for the most current map symbology.
