Television coverage of the California fires has included animations and other digital visuals that have elucidated many dimensions of the destruction. Online, GeoCommons has put together maps and data that provide fire information quantity and quality that is awesome by any standard of years past, explaining:

In an effort to make more resources and data available to the community in regards to the San Diego fires we’ve uploaded a decent chunk of data to GeoCommons. We are tagging all the data with “San Diego fire” and will be updating GeoCommons as more data becomes available. We’ll also be putting together a separate page with data mashups and useful context about the fires, as the situation evolves.

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