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Rick Heggem
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Show me the smoke! For some reason, the app only sometimes shows the smokey areas in North America. I can turn off/on the smoke setting. I can force close the app and restart. But nothing I do seems to make the smoke visible on occasion. I don't know why smoke is visible on occasion and sometimes not. Thank you to the developer for the smoke explanation. The explanation comports with my experience, but I changed my rating from 3 to 4 for the explanation. Solving the problem would earn a 5.
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The smoke info is generally available in the afternoons after a NOAA technician publishes the data. This availability is a side effect of how NOAA publishes the data, and we hope to improve on this in a future update.
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Jessica Bagby
I downloaded 4 different wildfire watch apps, and this was the worst. I know, for 100% surety, there is a 12,000+ acre fire about 50 miles away from me, and another small one about 25 miles away from me. This app shows the big fire as a bunch of tiny "hot spots" but has zero info about it, no size, no containment %, nothing. It shows nothing (as in it says there is no fire) on the map for the smaller fire. There are MUCH better fire/disaster apps available, like Watch Duty. Good luck!😅
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Monique Steyn
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Testing this app for our area, Western Cape, South Africa. Unless I'm missing it, there doesn't seem to be a distance calculator directly on the app. Shows a distance when one taps on more info, however, I'm assuming is a distance of one's current location? Not to a specific location elsewhere? One can go to co-ords > Google earth. Is there a possibility for this to be developed still? The quality on mobile seems really good and it is showing accurately an active fire nearby.
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Qvyshift LLC
05 January 2022
You are correct—the distance shown is the distance from the current location of your device. A point-to-point distance measure is something we'll consider for future development. Thanks for the feedback.