Nature...Coal

This image captures 15929 fire brigade incidents over the timespan of about 1.5 years in Greece (in the period 2008-2009).

 

No map projection has been used (The lat / long are linearly mapped to the image space), no special color scheme, there are no fancy fonts or layout.

 

I felt that these things would lower the impact of the image. Because it is almost "natural" for a visualisation of a country's road network to trace out its shape, but it's somehow disturbing to just stand there and watch that familiar shape pop out of the data in such stark resolution.

 

The data for this visualisation where obtained from the recently (last couple of years) instated Greek geodata portal.

 

The dynamics of the fire incidences, that is, taking time as well as place into account, are visible in this video. You can watch there how the frequency of occurence is booming during the summer months (and no, that's not wildfires, that's arson)

 

More information (albeit in Greek :-) ), is available through this blog post

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