Handling department data

For data that is currently NOT supported directly in FireCARES but could be used in a vector layer on the site, data should be uploaded to s3://firecares-data-backup.

Currently, there is a variety of of geojson files types that are transformed into mbtiles and stored at s3://firecares-tiles:

• Hydrants
• Fire stations
• Fire districts
• Response times
• etc

The data should be uploaded using the following naming conventions, replacing spaces with a single underscore:

/[ALPHA2 ISO COUNTRY CODE]/[ALPHA2 STATE/PROVINCE CODE]/[JURISDICTION NAME]/[ALPHA2 ISO COUNTRY CODE]-[ALPHA2 STATE/PROVINCE CODE]-[JURISDICTION NAME]-[FILE TYPE].[FILE EXTENSION]

The current [FILE TYPE] values include:

• fire_hydrants
• fire_stations
• fire_districts
• building_footprints
• response_time

In order to visualize this information in FireCARES, mbtiles must be generated and uploaded to s3://firecares-tiles and be referenced by the tile server

1. Copy geojson files from s3: aws s3 cp s3://firecares-data-backup/ . --exclude="*" --include "hydrants.geojson" --recursive
2. cd us && cp /**/.geojson ../ # need to have 'shopt -s globstar' option set
3. tippecanoe -r 0 -l hydrants -o hydrants.mbtiles -z18 -Z14 -f *.geojson
4. aws s3 cp hydrants.mbtiles s3://firecares-tiles/ --acl=public-read