I am please to say that I won the people's choice award at Hull this year.
Initially I had intended to work on the Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! challenge to visualise the amount of radiation people are exposed to on a trans-polar flight, but after a number of hours struggling to pull together a data set I switched over to "and you can help fight fires" which challenged people to map data from satellites monitoring bright spots and to crowd-source data to help people and emergency services plan routes around fires.
I did not have as much of a team as in previous years as team-mates had other commitments and could not attend both days, so a large part of the project was delivered on my own. It was a good chance to learn more about the Google Maps JavaScript API which is a large part of what drove the final project.
The intent was a single page application with some APIs to add functionality and to allow data collection from users. Data sets can be turned on and off to allow users to work with what they deem most valuable.
The finished article is available at firefinder.eu although it will only work properly in Firefox or IE as location data is not available over insecure connections in Chrome.
I still have a video to produce and the code to open source, but for now the project page can be found at https://2017.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/warning-danger-ahead/and-you-can-help-fight-fires/teams/firefindereu/project
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