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Show HN: Bunker.land – The Best (and Worst) Places to Wait Out a Nuclear War

8 points by bpodgursky 7y ago

bpodgursky 7y ago
I put this visualization together over the past couple weeks. I have a more detailed description of the motivation and datasets, and methods used here: https://bpodgursky.com/2019/07/25/bunker-land-the-best-and-worst-places-to-wait-out-a-nuclear-war/ https://bpodgursky.com/2019/07/25/bunker-land-the-best-and-w..., but the brief version is: Tools: - QGIS for buffers and shading - Mapbox + Mapbox GL JS to combine layers Data - Ports, military bases: https://maps.bts.dot.gov/services/rest/services/NTAD https://maps.bts.dot.gov/services/rest/services/NTAD - Railroads: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/tiger-line-shapefile-2015-nation-u-s-rails-national-shapefile https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/tiger-line-shapefile-2015-n... - Cities: https://simplemaps.com/data/us-cities https://simplemaps.com/data/us-cities - Power infrastructure: https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=b7d20f91a412490782178ee60f994361 https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=b7d20f91a4124907821... - Elevation data: https://nationalmap.gov/small_scale/atlasftp.html#elev48i https://nationalmap.gov/small_scale/atlasftp.html#elev48i - Seismic risk: https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/sim3325 https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/sim3325 Let me know if you want any more details.
- auslander 7y ago
  How is elevation used?
  - bpodgursky 7y ago
    There's a layer for sea level rise (not enabled by default).
marapuru 7y ago
Very interesting. Living on Honolulu seems to be one of the worst places of all. (with all options toggled)
- benj111 7y ago
  Worst as in quick painless death, or worst as in surviving and having to fight bands of post apocalyptic raiders for dwindling supplies?
  - marapuru 7y ago
    Well it looked as if it is a hotpot of various things that could go wrong.
sudovancity 7y ago
Im not sure I want to wait something like that out lol.
JohnClark1337 7y ago
Did the Democrats bring this up in their primary? Why is everyone talking about nuclear war again?

8 points by bpodgursky 7y ago

I put this visualization together over the past couple weeks. I have a more detailed description of the motivation and datasets, and methods used here: https://bpodgursky.com/2019/07/25/bunker-land-the-best-and-worst-places-to-wait-out-a-nuclear-war/ https://bpodgursky.com/2019/07/25/bunker-land-the-best-and-w..., but the brief version is: Tools: - QGIS for buffers and shading - Mapbox + Mapbox GL JS to combine layers Data - Ports, military bases: https://maps.bts.dot.gov/services/rest/services/NTAD https://maps.bts.dot.gov/services/rest/services/NTAD - Railroads: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/tiger-line-shapefile-2015-nation-u-s-rails-national-shapefile https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/tiger-line-shapefile-2015-n... - Cities: https://simplemaps.com/data/us-cities https://simplemaps.com/data/us-cities - Power infrastructure: https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=b7d20f91a412490782178ee60f994361 https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=b7d20f91a4124907821... - Elevation data: https://nationalmap.gov/small_scale/atlasftp.html#elev48i https://nationalmap.gov/small_scale/atlasftp.html#elev48i - Seismic risk: https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/sim3325 https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/sim3325 Let me know if you want any more details.

auslander 7y ago
How is elevation used?
- bpodgursky 7y ago
  There's a layer for sea level rise (not enabled by default).

marapuru 7y ago

Very interesting. Living on Honolulu seems to be one of the worst places of all. (with all options toggled)

benj111 7y ago
Worst as in quick painless death, or worst as in surviving and having to fight bands of post apocalyptic raiders for dwindling supplies?
- marapuru 7y ago
  Well it looked as if it is a hotpot of various things that could go wrong.

sudovancity 7y ago

Im not sure I want to wait something like that out lol.

JohnClark1337 7y ago

Did the Democrats bring this up in their primary? Why is everyone talking about nuclear war again?