Hurricane Sandy

Visualizing Hurricane Sandy with NHC data.

• Blog post

This repository contains two demos for working with NHC data:

• A tile maps using TileMill (View demo: http://mapbox.com/sandy/tiles)
• A vector map using ogr2ogr and Polymap (View demo: http://mapbox.com/sandy/vector)

Tile Map

• Use TileMill to render NHC shapefiles
• Use mapbox.js to display tile layer together with MapBox Streets.
• TileMill project in tiles/tilemill/sandy
• See map embedding with mapbox.js in tiles/site.js

Vector Map

• Convert shapefiles to geojson with GDAL's ogr2ogr
• Use Polymaps to render geojson on top of MapBox Streets.
• See ogr2ogr conversion in vector/data/shp2geojson
• See polymaps usage in vector/site.js

Data

Weather data is from the National Hurricane Center (NHC). Map data is from OpenStreetMap.

• http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gis/
• http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gis/forecast/archive/al182012_5day_latest.zip