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Show HN: Bunker.land – The Best (and Worst) Places to Wait Out a Nuclear War (bunker.land)
8 points by bpodgursky on July 25, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments


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-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

- Railroads: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/tiger-line-shapefile-2015-n...

- Cities: https://simplemaps.com/data/us-cities

- Power infrastructure: https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=b7d20f91a4124907821...

- Elevation data: https://nationalmap.gov/small_scale/atlasftp.html#elev48i

- Seismic risk: https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/sim3325

Let me know if you want any more details.


How is elevation used?


There's a layer for sea level rise (not enabled by default).


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


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


Worst as in quick painless death, or worst as in surviving and having to fight bands of post apocalyptic raiders for dwindling supplies?


Well it looked as if it is a hotpot of various things that could go wrong.




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