Another Word For It Patrick Durusau on Topic Maps and Semantic Diversity

March 7, 2019

Nearest Neighbor/Fire Hydrant?

Filed under: Dataset,Insurance — Patrick Durusau @ 5:37 pm

HazardHub’s HydrantHub Passes 10 Million Fire Hydrant Locations Nationwide

From the post:

Distance to a fire hydrant is one of the most critical components to properly priced homeowners and property insurance. Yet – too often – hydrant data is simply missing from existing fire protection algorithms. HydrantHub’s aim is to break that data blockage by collecting and standardizing hydrant data, then making that data available to consumers, insurers, inspectors, and municipalities across the country. Not only can HydrantHub tell you the closest hydrant, it can also tell you the number within perimeter 1,000-foot radius of a location, giving insurers unique insight as to how well a community can provide critical water assets to a fire. The hydrant locations in HydrantHub cover over 80% of the US population with hydrants.

HydrantHub is available via HazardHub’s free “Where’s My Closest Hydrant” tool on http://www.hazardhub.com, as well as HazardHub’s powerful API.

Exploring the placement and number of fire hydrants by race and social class is one re-use of this data. Another re-use includes determining when different fires would place conflicting demands on fire hydrants.

Does every data set that admits to a benign use, have one or more non-benign uses? I suspect that to be the case. Counter-examples anyone?

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