About the Situation Map

Dispatchers, Authors, Editors, Incident Owners, Incident Reviewers, and Incident Approvers use the Situation map for the following tasks to:

• draw and save the planning area for the incident
• draw or upload fire perimeters for the incident
• draw or upload barriers to the landscape
• draw or upload management action points
• draw or upload incident obj. shapes
• draw or upload points of interest
• evaluate values at risk within the planning area for the incident to review analysis results for the incident
• review unit shapes available for the incident locale
• run a spatial inventory/values inventory for the planning area - the Spatial Inventory pop-up window lists Spatial Fire Planning Inventory followed by Values Inventory. The Spatial Fire Planning Inventory list includes Retardant Avoidance, Alaska Fire Management Options, and Unit Management Requirement layers (if the unit is using the Spatial Fire Planning process). The spatial inventory list is not displayed if it is empty. When viewing a decision document, the Values Inventory displays information in the Values section of the document and the Spatial Fire Planning Inventory displays on the Objectives page.

The Situation Map page displays by clicking the Situation tab or the small map icon located on the right side of the screen in the incident perspective. Accessing the Situation map from the Situation tab embeds the map in the application's main window whereas accessing it via the map icon will open the map in its own window. Accessing it from the icon allows the greatest flexibility as you can both edit a decision and view the Situation map simultaneously.

Note: You can find out about the Menu tab items by pausing over each item and reading the hover text explaining the function of each.

When you choose the Map tab and click the + next to each item (to expand them), you can display many informative layers on the map. If you can't see a reference or value layer in the list, go to your system preferences and add it. These layers are periodically updated in WFDSS. If analysis results are available for the incident, you can view them by expanding the Analysis layer.

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Last updated on 5/7/2018 3:37:50 PM.

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