OzPulse

This is not an emergency service. OzPulse shows third-party data that may be delayed, incomplete or wrong. In an emergency call 000. For official warnings always check your state's emergency service.

About the data

Last updated: 24 October 2026

OzPulse aggregates publicly published incident feeds from Australian fire and emergency agencies, normalises them into a single schema, and shows them on a 3D map with the source, licence and age of every record. We do not generate or forecast warnings: we display what agencies publish, and we tell you how fresh it is.

Sources

Jurisdiction	Source	Licence / access	Refresh
NSW	NSW Rural Fire Service — Major Incidents	CC BY 3.0 Australia	~10 min
VIC	Emergency Management Victoria / CFA public feeds	As published by the agency	per agency
QLD	Queensland Fire Department public incidents	As published by the agency	per agency
WA	Emergency WA (Department of Fire and Emergency Services)	As published by the agency	per agency
SA	South Australian Country Fire Service	As published by the agency	per agency
TAS	Tasmania Fire Service / TasALERT	As published by the agency	per agency
ACT	ACT Emergency Services Agency	As published by the agency	per agency
Australia	Geoscience Australia — Earthquakes@GA (WFS)	CC BY 4.0	rolling 7-day window
Weather	Open-Meteo (air temperature)	CC BY 4.0	hourly
Place search	OpenStreetMap Nominatim	ODbL — attribution shown	live query
Basemap / terrain	OpenFreeMap, AWS Terrain Tiles (via our own cache)	Open data, attribution shown	static

NT is intentionally excluded: its published feed does not permit reuse. If an agency changes or withdraws a feed, the layer is marked as unavailable and the last good data is shown with its timestamp.

Sources deliberately not used

Bureau of Meteorology warnings — automated access is blocked and commercial reuse is not granted; we will not work around it. Flood and storm information therefore comes only from state agencies that publish a reusable feed.
Electricity outage maps — the distributors do not publish an open feed; we do not scrape them.
Road closure feeds — several state traffic APIs require a key and per-use terms; none is integrated yet.
NT — reuse not permitted by the source.

Known limitations

Not real time. Most agency feeds update every 10-15 minutes; the app shows the age of every layer.
Location precision varies. Incidents published without coordinates may be placed at the centre of a local government area — treat the pin as approximate.
Coverage is not uniform. Each state publishes different fields (size, status, alert level); missing values are left empty rather than guessed.
Replay is a snapshot, not a history of the truth. It reconstructs what the feeds said at that moment, including their errors.
Terrain and basemap are decorative. They help read the landscape; they are not survey data.

How freshness is calculated

Each layer records the timestamp published by the source (not the time we fetched it). A layer is live when its age is within its expected interval, delayed beyond twice that interval, and stale beyond four times — or immediately if the last fetch failed.

Corrections

If you spot a bad record, a missing feed or a licence problem, write to davidguardiola.ai@gmail.com. We fix the pipeline, not the data: the authoritative source is always the agency.