General Improvements
- Enable import functions to accept and translate true curve features to eMap layers
- Upgrade eMap server software
- Prevent geometry editing tools from being able to save bogus geometries to database
- Improve resilience of analysis functions around bogus geometries in database
- Improve processing of linescan images to cater for bespoke projections
- Improved monitoring of printing services and services with external dependencies
- Modify linescan search tool to have no linescans selected by default
- Improved storage of incident points to improve performance
- Creation of task to archive Firemapper content for user access on Fireweb
- Restore function to display RATS speeds in knots (aircraft) or km/h (ground vehicles)
- Creation of simple 'Resource Viewer' site for generic and static display and tracking of resource/vehicle movements
- Replace FFM and helicopter resource symbols to planimetric view
- Provide GWagen specific subset of Fire Tankers in Resource Tracking service
- Archive end of 2018/2019 financial year observations
- Make Image Web Server tool deployable
- Creation of services and data for FPSP site
FMS / Fuel Management Related changes
- Remove fire history layer from FMS mud maps to improve clarity
- Cater for the creation of FMS fuel treatment mud maps up to 50x50km
- Provide services to allow the deletion and recreation of fuel treatment origins
- Remap sources of critical fuel treatment attributes to reduce latency of ETL processes and duplication of attributes
- Unhighlight selected values check geometries at end of workflow
- Remapping of residual risk modelling outputs to FMS values on burn completion
- Provide Code of Forestry Practice and General Management Zones for future FMS Land Attribute reporting
- Remove fuel treatments from view in Fire Management service where treatments have no status or are not due for delivery
Water Site
- Change labelling of flood layers from Flood Peak Isochrone to Flood Peak Contour
Some of the enhancements are:
- Updates to Fuel Management datasets and creation of services to support FMS implementation
- Updates to VBA datasets to reflect corporate data changes
- Addition of Localities to topography mapbase
- Updates to the consequence reports such as roads and assets classes
- Updates to VFRR and Neighbourhood Safer Places datasets
- Addition of "Spotfire Predicted" option to Bushfire point editing
- Addition of gas pipelines to all sites
- New cultural heritage and important wetland data
- Addition of NASA hotspot data (VIIRS)
- Addition of Context Cam photos to Field Photos
- Addition of IWS search tool to sites
- Addition of Bearing intersect and Map book reference tools to FFMV site
- Added irrigation districts and PWSC data and duck hunting to Water site
- Updates to the flood and maritime pollution themes in Water site
- Add the copy edit tool to water site
- Improvements to profile tool access all sites
- Reinstated Linescans and associated search tool to FFMV site
- Tactical layers added to the FM printing templates
- Larger scale options added to allow greater zoom flexibility
- Bug fixes for Community Engagement maps
- Bug fix for AIG line time label
- Bug fix for traffic management point deletion issue
- Traffic management points in mapping templates
- Sector lines added to map templates
Image Web Server (IWS) tool released - For more information - please see HERE
Key components of the release include:
Key components of the release include:
Key components of the release include:
- Advanced Filter tool now available
- Faster loading speed across all devices
- Fixing of phantom layer loading
- Improved incidents feed improving user-end performance / responsiveness (associated changes to map templates, data export services). Please note that for users of the fire.shp that is exported to Fireweb \ Mapping \ Data, the INC_NUMBER field will change field type from double, to integer.
- Modification of workflows and services to allow continued function of B&W / FMS related data
- Overhaul of database server configuration at training environment
- Introduction of service to synchronise eMap features to ArcGIS Online for use in ArcGIS Collector
- CFA resource tracking layers moved from "eMap Catalog" into main site, into existing Resource and Aircraft Tracking service
- Unimog data moved from Fire Management folder into its own dedicated folder "Unimog 4000m Fire Truck Network". This contains data direct from VicRoads, and therefore will contain the most up to date data regarding Unimog road permits.
- Edit functions reconfigured to allow more layers to be copied
- Improved monitoring of critical behind-the-scenes processes
- Improved labelling of DELWP District boundaries
- Addition of Localities polygons to Boundaries map service
- Modelled Fuel Hazard (2017) layer moved into new Modelled Fuel Hazard group, which also includes new layers Fuel Hazard (2018) and Bark Hazard (2018)
- Windfarm layers added to Fire Management / Risk folder
- Additional output sizes for flood and storm situation templates
- Bug Fix - Removal of labels from non-symbolised tactical features, addition of Escape Routes toTraffic Management map
- Improved labelling for Tactical Areas in Contingency Plan map
- 'Temporary' fuel treatment and tactical features to appear in map outputs
- Bug Fix - Improved behaviour in displaying adjacent burns in Traffic management templates
- Bug Fix - Treatment Number in Fuel Management export maps will be as per the assigned Burn Location point, and appear in export map title
Key components of the release include:
- Fuel Management silverlight site retired
- Migration of FMS Lines - Nominated into Tactical Lines layer, and decommissioning of Nominated Lines layer from eMap (editing and drawing layer)
- Improvements to Extract Data tool and shapefiles exported to Fireweb
- Improvements to the display of Unimog Road Permit data
- Enable 'Temporary' fuel treatment and tactical features to be exported via DataExtractTask, and Data-Exports (shp and kml)
- Fix for Zoning layers not displaying in FM site
- Retire BURNPLAN18 service from layer catalog. Stop service for this release, then service can be deleted as part of next release
- AIG layers added to the Layer list
- Turn Project save tools off for this viewer released
- Added more scales to both Basic and Standard prints
- Add online help link to the Home panel
- Fix Traffic Management Hillshade layer error
- Development of an ETL task to consume maritime emergency incidents from AMSA for Water site.
- Added a number of maritime emergency editing datasets and configured them with editing toolset for Water site.
- Updated ME Consequence Report with new observation layers for Water site.
- Added a new tool "Find a Geographic Feature" to all sites except Fuel Management site.
- Adding feature descripton and map tip for SES incident in Water site
- Add Maritime Emergency Incident feed (NEMO) for Water site
Key components of the upgrade include:
- Fuel Management HTML site introduced
- Bushfire Silverlight site Retired!
- Landslide data layer added to Bushfire and FM sites
- New Property Report added to FM site (Neighbour Notifications)
- Tsunami WMS layers added to Water site
- MGRS coords now available in all HTML sites
- New icons for some tools in HTML sites
Key components of the upgrade include:
- Added approved FOP to "Burn Plan Filter"
- Improvements to Traffic Management and Operation export maps
- Modification to export map tactical feature selection options (Alpha points)
- Bug fixes to fuel treatment area label issue
- Addition of DEDJTR business data to eMap Water site
- Creation of new "Find a Dam" and "Find a Reservoir" tools
- Addition of Profile Tool to site
- Addition of layer catalogue to Water site
- Adding zoning layers to site
- Decommissioning of Fire Management Viewer
- Efficiencies to shapefile/kmz data export from Fireweb
- Improvements to export of burnt area features to support Phoenix Rapidfire
- Addition of Transport folder to Layer Catalogue
- Bug fix for burn polygons not displaying on GeoPDF maps
- Addition of "Home Panel" to select sites, with links to help resources
- Addition of mining layers to Layer Catalogue
- Default map grid displayed changed to MGA94 (from geographics) (edited)
Key components of the upgrade include:
- Bug fix - QR code Burn maps in Fuel Management can now be viewed in iOS devices
- Enhancements to the eMap Water site with consequence reports now available for maritime emergencies
- New wind direction rose in the weather legend
- Export map templates and symbology improvements in Fuel Management
Key components of upgrade include:
Bushfire Site- Upgrade of Geocortex software to enable Bushfire site to be replaced with HTML5 equivalent
- Creation of a new Bushfire HTML5 site, new suite of editing tools, profile tool, modification of all workflows for compatibility with HTML5 sites
- The creation of a layer catalogue to allow the simplification / removal of layers from the bushfire site
- Development to support GO FireFighter to consume eMap GeoPDF maps
- Updated Fuel Hazard Layer
- Addition of Power Company boundaries to Boundaries mapservice and IMT/SCC consequence report
- Updated labelling for SES, MFB and PV layers
- Introduction of additional servers to improve resilience of critical ETL functions
- Modification of mapservice configuration and deployables to improve stability
- Improvements to Data Exports task to improve timeliness of data exporting for external stakeholders
- Update of Timber Utilisation Plan and associated labeling
- EMV logo added to print map template headers
- Addition of Mine Shaft data to sites
- Phoenix Rapidfire output labels modified to "Unverified" in case of un-approved
- Update Sentinel Hotspots feed
- New Fuel_and_Biodiversity "add maps" service, containing Leadbeaters possum advisory data, PV Reveg Areas
- Update Fixed Wing Aircraft terminology to use Active / Inactive terms
- Updated Aircraft PDD layers
- Improved display of Arena aviation events layers
- Addition of Potential Impact Zone - Hand Sketched as an input option in consequence reports
- Improved behaviour of user selections in Consequence Reports
- New FFM_extra_layers "add maps" service, containing vector slope class data, regional recreation sites, and DAP
- Update of Census data to 2016 dataset
- Burnt Area shapefile export - enable calculation of burn date as integer and filtering out treated area polygons
- Enable HTML popups for CFA Other Incidents and SES Incidents KMLs
- Update of Approved FOP
- Additional data available in Fuel Management Data Extract tool
- Improved labelling to Alphas and tactical lines in Fuel Management export maps
- A2 Operational Map output for Fuel Management
- BOM stream gauge observations service added to eMap Water
- SES RFAs Template improvements for Water site
- Upgrades to data export process for external consumers
- Improvements to "Burnt Area" extract procedures to support Phoenix Rapidfire
- Improvements and bug fixes to export maps
- Additional PV content added to FMS Values Check service
- Landscape POIs added to General Tactical Points layer
- Upgrade incident data maintenance process
- Continued development of Water themed HTML5 site
- Improved monitoring of database replication function
- Updated SES logo
- 'FMIS Lines - Nominated' layer added to the Burn Search and Clear Filter workflows
- The process that places information into the FireWeb>Mapping>Data folders has been improved so that it will hopefully be more reliable.
- Update the search results for the SES Regions so that the region name is listed in the results window.
- Improvements to the base values returned to FMS about a treatment
- Airfields have been added to the global search function (This is the white "Search..." box at the top right hand corner of the browser window).
- Powerline distribution data to the Operational map template
- Legends in the Operational map templates updated
- Grid Layers added to the Traffic Management and Works templates
- Phytophthora Risk' dataset added to Fuel Management and Bushfire sites under Fire Management>Risk.
- Arena data has been added to Resource and Aircraft Tracking>Aviation Events
- Gas Pipelines has been added to the Infrastructure folder
- A huge amount of work has gone on behind the scenes to make the data processing of additional fuel management features more efficient, which means that there is no longer a delay between saving the features on the "Edit Features" toolbar and seeing them through the Fire Management layers and also the Standard Map pdfs. This work will also hopefully allow us to be more flexible in receiving information from FMS and FireWeb and be quicker in responding to business and system changes.
-Add EMV logo to Fire Spread Prediction & Public Information Map - PIZ templates - Add in a DELWP CFA Bushfires Safe Layer so you an actually see where they are, rather than taking a guess from the incidents list (we will be looking at improving the list in the next release as it is rather long) - Prep works template for planned burning - Symbology improvements for road closures, wetlines, water courses - Updates to consequence reports including not being allowed to use special characters in the name, and adding in the Recweb Sites and Tracks data to the BRRAT consequence report under Assets/Infrastructure - Improvements to the FMS Line Nominations fields so that information fed back to FMS is more sensible - Map template changes to legend only showing those optional layers that are selected eg PIZ, Fire History, Plantations and Tree Cover - Improvements to the Overview Map messaging around time taken to produce a pdf and also the improvements to the underlying template including changing Linescans so that they don't black out the surrounding map - Add wet line, gen line & hazard pt to Fire Spread Prediction map template (includes changes to the legend) - Improved labels for recweb layers, Bushfire Control Lines - Updates to the Recweb sites and tracks data, utilising the new categories in the symbology - Updates to the values checking tool and security around cultural heritage data - Snapping layer cleanup in Fuel Management, and making sure that users are able to snap to watercourses and mechanical works - Improve the descriptions in the results from searches: Fire Management Zones, State Forest Recreation Sites and Tracks, PLM Overlays, Public Land - Improvements to the deployment process so that we can catch more bugs before users find them! - Adding in an SES Incident print template to the Water site
March 2017 Release Notes PDF - Addition of General Hazard, General Polygon, General Line, Wet Line, General Point - GeoPDF Maps - Automatic creation of aerial and tree hazard geopdf maps for every burn, with accompanying QR codes - Updates to map printing templtes - Standard Map, Overview Map, Public Information Map, Community Engagement Map, Prepatory Works Map, Export Map - Addition of Bushfire Risk Landscape attribute to support Fireweb Site Attributes function - Aircraft filtering tools to assist with customising / simplifying display of resources at incidents - Aircraft trails separated into 0-2 hour and 2-24 hour classes - Fuel Management User Guide accessible via "I want to..." menu in Fuel Management site - 'Target Area' layer available for extract via the FM Extract Data Tool - Improvements to FMS values checking service and Fuel Management Values to Excel process - Add warnings to Weather service for significant rainfall events - Improved data update processes - Improvements to application deployment mechanisms - Improvements to system monitoring - Publishing of new application to support external planned burns website - eMap Field datasets available for extract via the Bushfire Extract Data Tool - AIG Image Mosaics to display the image in the map, not just the pop up
- Improve login for users so that you no longer need "FFM\" before your user name (yay, no more guessing as to whether you need it or not) - Removal of the Risk, PDD_PRD BOUNDaries and the unimog roads "I want to > Add Map Layers" map services as these layers have been incorporated into the main map services included within the table of contents - Improved layer and feature descriptions for the identify results windows aross a number of different layers (Please let us know if we have missed any, or would like improvements to what we have changed.) - Aerial imagery geopdf maps now available for all incidents via scannable QR Codes - Fire Tower status (Active/Inactive) (Resource and Aircraft Tracking>Fire Towers) - Increased scale range of the Arterial Unimog Roads. - Improvement to data and map processing for reports and pdfs. - Fixes to the FireWeb>Mapping>Data>Burns data exports - Fixes to bugs that allowed layers that weren't "ticked on" to be visible
- Added in the GMZ Forest Management Zones - Update of the Fuel Hazard dataset (Fire Management> Risk> Modeled Fuel Hazard (2016)) - Addition of the FireWeb Fuel Moisture Station information as shown in the FireWeb>State Map (Fire Management>Fuel Moisture) - Update of the Fire Infrastructure layers including water points, base campes, work centres and fire towers - Update of the L3 ICC locations - Add Alpine Peatland Fire Risk data (Fire Management>Risk>Alpine Peatland Fire Risk) - Update Tree Hazard Risk data with 2016 data (Fire Management>Risk>Tree Hazard Risk). Layers have been separated out to show different categories.
- Added CMA boundary layer - Added Bushfire Risk Landscape Boundary . This was previously in the risk add map service. - Update and improvement of the symbology of the Rappel Dispatch dataset (Boundaries>PDD&PRD Boundaries) - Update and improvement of the symbology of the Aircraft Predetermined Dispatch Boundaries (Boundaries>PDD PRD Boundaries). These are now split into two groups Post Harvest and Grain Harvest. - Update of the Fire District Boundaries (error in the Metro District name) - Update of the CFA Brigade Response Boundaries
- Addition of the QR Code to pdf maps layer. On Start up the information from this layer will show as a black circle with a white number inside. This indicates the number of pdf maps that are available through a QR code that are associated with particular events. Zoom in to the features and hover to reveal the scannable QR code.
- Fix of a bug that assigned the wrong category to tactical import features - Added BOM Weather folder - Improved the scale range that the burn name labels showed for the Operational map templates - Addition of the Mineral Licences to the Consequence Report - Enabled features from the 'Timber Release Plan' layer to be copied to the editable layers - Fix of a bug that wouldn't allow users to delete a General Line
- Sentinel Hotspots automatically visible again on start up
- Streamlined for faster loading
- Separated out PIZ and Current burnt area with different colours
Fire Management Viewer - The old "State Overview" theme is now named "Fire Management Viewer" and is a BAU tool for DELWP, PV and CFA staff around fire management operations, but it IS NOT the emergency management situational awareness tool. EM-COP is now the Situational Awareness tool for Emergency Response. Fire Management Viewer does not have the live Incident Feed. Log-in access is required.
Welcome to the new release of eMap in Horizon. The major change at this stage is at login! PLEASE use FFM\username instead of FIRE\username
More changes will be released soon.
Thanks for using the new eMap v4 site. As always, please report any issues with usage so we can rectify ASAP.