Identity · mission · responsibility
Make map evidence readable without making it more certain
Fire Maps is a free, openly accessible project created by José DA COSTA. It brings public sources into one view while preserving the time, provenance and limits around each piece of information.
Public pages
- Published
- Revised
The mission
The project helps a reader separate what was observed, what was modeled and what was inferred around a wildland fire. The advanced map supports analysis; the simple map opens a more direct reading; the encyclopedia explains terminology, sensors and aerial response.
Fire Maps does not replace emergency services, incident command or official alerts. A public interface has neither the coverage, validation nor authority of an operational system.
Creator and editor
José DA COSTA designs, develops and edits Fire Maps. Product and architecture decisions are versioned in the project repository; editorial pages state their publication and revision dates.
Sources keep their name, link and attribution. Locally stored photographs come only from free licenses compatible with redistribution; other photographs remain with their publisher and are linked with credit.
What the project chooses not to promise
The site does not claim to display every fire, every aircraft or every position. It does not invent a position between messages, turn a hotspot into an official perimeter or present a scenario as certain forecast.
Missing data may mean outside coverage, delay, source refusal or no observation. Where these states can be distinguished, the interface publishes them separately.
Access, code and contact
Using the site requires no account. The code is distributed under GPL-2.0-or-later. The normal map experience works without asking visitors for a personal API key.
Questions, newer sources and factual corrections can be sent to contact@josedacosta.info. A useful correction names the URL, the passage and the source that makes it verifiable.