Maplore

Threat maps for a warming world

Climate is the first symptom.

The rain that breeds mosquitoes falls five to nine weeks before the fever. The green flush that feeds locusts comes before the swarm. Maplore reads those signals across every district of India, so the response can start with the conditions, not the casualties.

784
districts
2
threats tracked
4 wks
look-ahead
4×
updates a day
100%
open data

Open data in, open methods out: public infrastructure for the health and agriculture teams who move supplies before the season turns.

Tiddi: locust field surveys and breeding conditions across the Thar desert Desert locust · 12 districts, Rajasthan & Gujarat Tiddi Is this district at risk of locusts, and how old is what we know? —locusts, 14 days —survey too old —wet enough to breed PathogenWatch: Goa on a 5 km grid, top five cells marked Dengue · 784 districts, Goa pilot at 5 km PathogenWatch Where does the truck go on Monday? Every district against its own past, four weeks ahead. —at a record —upper quartile —week of

How we work

Five rules we keep

Each one is there because we got it wrong once.

  1. 01 Every number shows its age Weather is hours old. Field surveys are weeks old. Official case counts can be a year behind. We never blend them into one “latest” figure.
  2. 02 No news isn’t good news A district with no reports may simply have no one looking. We say “unknown”, never “clear”.
  3. 03 We don’t claim accuracy we haven’t proven Until our warnings are checked against real case records, every page says so at the top.
  4. 04 Each place against its own past “Wetter than seven of the last eight Septembers” means more than an abstract score, so that is how we say it.
  5. 05 Missing data stays missing A gap in the record is shown as a gap, never quietly filled in with a zero.

Data

Built on open data

Both tools use the same weather for all 784 districts of India: forecasts we run on our own server, past weather back to 2005, and official district boundaries, so our maps line up with government health records.

Background: Western Ghats behind Goa, 60 m contours from the Copernicus 90 m elevation model.