Category Archives: Preplan Tips
How to Symbolize Preplan Information on Map
I receive several questions about how to symbolize preplan data. Fortunately ArcMap comes with a symbolset that includes many preplan symbols in the Hazmat symbolset. This symbolset includes most of the NFPA 170 symbols as well as NFPA 704 and … Continue reading
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Identifying Safety Hazards on a Preplan
One of the things that is often lacking in preplans is identifying safety hazards. There are ways to show hazards to both firefighters and civilians on the preplan diagram. A proposal for showing safety hazards is to use a consistent … Continue reading
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3 D Mapping using Google Earth and Sketchup
There are a few scripts that can be downloaded from the ArcScripts website that create KML files that can be read in Google Earth and eventually ArcExplorer-ArcGIS. SketchUp is a 3d graphics program that can import building footprint information and … Continue reading
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On Scene Preplans
One clever ways view information about an occupancy is to have all of you information in one location. We saw this in Tumwater, Washington where all of the “critical information” was available in one spot for responding fire companies. There … Continue reading
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firemapping.com.. Information about GIS and pre-incident information for firefighters 