Google Earth Community: FEMA National Flood Hazard Layer

(removed the test version of the kmz file on Nov 30, 2007)

The (US) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) National Flood Hazard Layer contains Digital Flood Insurance Rate Map (DFIRM) data. New data are being added continually. Status information is shown at high and medium "eye altitudes;" full detail is displayed at an altitude of 15,000 feet or so.

Data are being provided through a web map service (WMS). The service has several data overlays, all of which are turned on in this example.

The service is available through http://hazards.fema.gov/wmsconnector/wms...amp;SERVICE=WMS (URL updated Sep 10, 2008) By using this link you can add the service to Google Earth and control the overlays that are displayed. For instructions see "Placing WMS Image Overlays" at http://earth.google.com/userguide/v4/ug_imageoverlays.html

This service was not designed with Google Earth in mind, and we are interested in your thoughts about the usefulness of this service in Google Earth (what works and what doesn't) and how you would use the service in Google Earth (types of activites and previous experience with FEMA's DFIRM data). Send your comments to "dontgetwett@gmail.com" (note two t's at the end!).

In addition to display through this service, these data (as well as other data for much of the rest of the United States) are available for viewing and downloading from the FEMA Map Service Center at http://msc.fema.gov

Edited by dontgetwett (09/10/08 08:04 AM)

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