Simi Fire burn scar

I've been meaning to put this up for a couple of weeks and figured that I'd better get it done before the year ends. Burn Scar from Southern California fires. Here's the original MODIS image.

David and Yuko Knight of Redtail Canyon have quickly become a favorite place to check when things happen in the world. Pictures (ground level and satellite) seem to be the focus. I don't know how they do it (nor why) but they get together a basic snapshot of what's happening (the kind of basic information you won't get in anything but an in depth article from most news sources). Perhaps it's just a focus on the basic facts (or near facts) without a lot of personal information. Without a need for a viewpoint and no editorial oversight, we get what they've got.

I originally found the article while checking local links via GeoURL. Kudos to the folks at Redtail Canyon for using ICMB meta tags on this and many other articles. At the same time, things are already getting crowded (like the geo links for the Passmoore art exhibit... if every artist and photographer did this it would be difficult to find anyone else). Perhaps we need some additional mechanisms for classification?

On a total tangent, I also found this local weather station (Woodland Hills area) via GeoURL. Location tags are popping up all over the place. I think we can reasonably expect the trend to continue. I wonder how long it will take before the search engines start to take advantage of this information (if they haven't already).