[Talk-us] Civil Defense Sirens?

Ian Dees ian.dees at gmail.com
Mon May 3 17:46:50 BST 2010


On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Jeffrey Ollie <jeff at ocjtech.us> wrote:

> With the start of Tornado season in the Midwest upon us, I thought it
> would be interesting to map civil defense sirens:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_defense_siren
>
> However, I can't find any existing examples and either I'm tired or
> coming down with something but I can't really think of a good way to
> tag these either.  As for rendering, we could use the International
> Civil Defense symbol:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:CivilDefence.svg
>
> Might make a good project of the week too...
>
> That would be fun. I'm up for making that a "US Project of the Week" if the
international folks aren't willing to help :).

Are the rural ones visible from aerial imagery? Perhaps we could start
researching which states/areas have active sirens?
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