New features in the U.S. Census Bureau’s OnTheMap application improve access to workforce and demographic statistics for emergency preparedness, response and recovery activities. The application automatically incorporates real-time data updates from the National Weather Service’s National Hurricane Center, Department of Interior, Department of Agriculture, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).

New features include:

• New emergency event data: Addition of FEMA disaster declaration areas and National Weather Service snowfall probability forecasts
• More complete hurricane archives: Capture and archiving of all daily National Hurricane Center storm updates
• Expanded report content: Addition of 2010 Census demographic and housing characteristics, and 2010 jobs and worker statistics
• New analyses and visualizations: New reports with charting and thematic map overlays showing population and worker origin and destination distributions
• New interoperability: New tool for exporting event areas to use in OnTheMap or other GIS applications
• Updated interface and help documentation: Improved user interface speed and navigability, improved event searching, newly updated help documentation