Disaster and emergency

Wildland fire IAP map (fictional)

Not a picture of the fire - the way out is written on it

Not a picture of the fire - the way out is written on it

This drawing comes from one YAML file. No shape was moved by hand.

Notes in the source (in Japanese)

A fire map is not a picture of the fire.

It is where the day is assigned and where the way out is written. So theline that is not finished is drawn as not finished - solid where it holds,dashed where it does not. A map that shows only completed line tells a crewthe fire is caught.

LCES is not a poster. Lookouts, communications, escape routes and safetyzones are on this sheet, or they do not exist. Divisions are lettered roundthe fire from the anchor point, so a name on the radio is a place on the map.

Every map product carries STANDL - scale, title, author, north arrow,date, legend. Source, grid and datum (SGD) are added here as good practice;that addition was not checked against the standard itself. IAP maps carry a bar scale and are sizedto the IAP page; there is no one fixed scale.Grid: 2' of longitude = 160 px and 1' of latitude = 111 px, the ratio at 44°N(cos 44.1° = 0.718), so the bar scale below holds in both directions:2' of longitude there is 2.66 km, so 1 km = 60 px.Escape routes are dotted with an arrow, so they cannot be read as unfinished line.STANDL follows NWCG PMS 936 (Standards for Geospatial Operations), checked 2026-10-02.

The fire, the divisions and the points are fictional.

Source (YAML)

examples/gallery/159-Fire-IAP-map.zumen.yaml

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