Every fire is seen by someone before it is seen by the system. If that someone is you, this page is where what you saw becomes part of what everyone knows: on the record, on the map, under your name.
The community's eyes are already on your incident. This map is where their views land, each one timed, placed, and credited, so the picture on your screen carries the ground truth around your line.
Today, marking a contribution official is recorded in its envelope as your declared intent. The official-naming workflow, with per-person authority behind it, arrives with the access layer.
Community views come in here with time and place attached, credited and public, ready to stand behind the warnings you send out. The channel stays two-way, and your county's picture belongs to your county.
Every incident on this map keeps a public record, and every record has room for what you saw. Three doors in: share your location and pick the incident near you in space and time, or add a photo and let the time and place your camera wrote find its incident, or place and time it yourself. The map is the front door. What you add joins the record credited to you, and nothing leaves your browser until you say so.
Each rectangle is a cataloged incident record, drawn from its STAC collection: the mapped area and the record window, straight from the record's own numbers.
Map background tiles come from OpenStreetMap. Like any online map, the tile server sees which map area this page is showing. Your location, your photo, and everything read from it stay on this page until you submit a deposit.
Ranked by a plain score: kilometers to the mapped area, plus 25 kilometers for every day outside the record window. Arithmetic on coordinates and timestamps, nothing more.
Share your location and the map sorts itself around you: the incidents near you in space and time rise to the top. Pick yours and its record opens with a place for your contribution.
Your location is read once, when you tap, and only in your browser. It sorts this map and does nothing else. It is never stored and never sent.
Add a photo and we read the location and time your camera wrote into the photo, right here in your browser, and show you before anything else happens. Nothing uploads. You see exactly what the photo says, then you decide.
Some imagery carries no location or time: screenshots, scans, video frames, photos with the data stripped out. Open set-space-time, drop the pin where you stood, and set the clock to when you saw it.
When you finish, set-space-time hands you a small stamp of that place and time. Copy it and paste it back here. It becomes your file's time and place, marked in the record as set by you, and the map matches from there exactly as it would from a camera's own numbers.
A working skeleton, honest about its bones. Working today: this map and its incident records, reading a photo's time and place in your browser, matching against the records, and credited deposits into each incident's public contribution box. Stubbed on purpose: no accounts, by design; per-person permissions and official naming arrive with the access layer; and when nothing matches, you get a founding deposit to hand off, because a page cannot start an incident record. A person does that.