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Some of the Australian bushfires are very close to my hometown so I've understandably been monitoring them pretty closely. Luckily the state government have a pretty awesome interactive map. It even works fantastically on mobile. https://emergency.vic.gov.au
Unfortunately a full page load uses 4MB of data. I can't imagine trying to access this on a poor or congested network which seems important for disaster and emergency tools.
Have you ever been to the rural areas where these fires are occurring? Population is so sparse that it’s not even economical for telcos to operate some towers and require subsidies. Signal strength is terrible depending on the distance, especially in an emergency scenario.
how much of that is the map data? my experience has been detailed maps are often even larger than that for even small regions.
also PSA: I download google maps of everywhere I travel / live which btw is a very nice hack for improving your data usage if you use maps a lot :)
this on a cached load or just first load?
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