Interactive Web and Mobil Solutions for Communicating Flood Risk, HAZUS Data and NFIP Information

Eric Hopkins, Xiannian Chen and Kurt Donaldson

West Virginia GIS Technical Center, West Virginia University 2014 West Virginia GIS ConferenceCharleston, West Virginia

WV Flood Tool

• MapWV.gov/flood• Flood Risk estimation / Insurance Elegibility• Resources at stake• Cartographic tool• Field work with mobile version

Future Work

• Conversion to Javascript application underway• Re-skinning under discussion• Survey / User input

Announcements

• Hazus for Flood training: July 28 - 31 (filling up! May repeat in future)

• Upper Monongahela Watershed Study: Discovery, Prioritization of need, Marion & Mon Counties

• We want your data! Parcels, Hi-res imagery, elevation / terrain / contours (2’ in Mon Co), vector data (bndy?)

Questions?

• ehopkins@wvu.edu