Show HN: Bunker.land – The Best (and Worst) Places to Wait Out a Nuclear War

I put this visualization together over the past couple weeks. I have a more detailed description of the motivation and datasets, and methods used here: https://bpodgursky.com/2019/07/25/bunker-land-the-best-and-w..., but the brief version is:

Tools:

- QGIS for buffers and shading

- Mapbox + Mapbox GL JS to combine layers

Data

- Ports, military bases: https://maps.bts.dot.gov/services/rest/services/NTAD

- Railroads: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset/tiger-line-shapefile-2015-n...

- Cities: https://simplemaps.com/data/us-cities

- Power infrastructure: https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=b7d20f91a4124907821...

- Elevation data: https://nationalmap.gov/small_scale/atlasftp.html#elev48i

- Seismic risk: https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/sim3325

Let me know if you want any more details.

Im not sure I want to wait something like that out lol.

Very interesting. Living on Honolulu seems to be one of the worst places of all. (with all options toggled)