Changelog

Un tablero vecinal del agua por sector, la calidad del aire y la ceniza del Volcán de Fuego hora por hora, y los números a quién llamar. Hechas con vecinos y fuentes locales; el agua y la ceniza no reemplazan a la Municipalidad ni a la CONRED.

A new kind of tool for towns reachable only by a scheduled, single-lane crossing. It reads the published timetable against your own clock — the next opening each way, and the last way home tonight — rather than pretending to be a live sensor, and pairs it with the tolls and a live freezing-weather flag. First use: the Anton Anderson tunnel into Whittier, Alaska. The sea-conditions tool also learned to speak to fishing crews: wave and wind read for a pirogue crossing the river-mouth bar, with the bar named as the real hazard instead of swimmers' flags — first used off Guet Ndar in Saint-Louis.

À Saint-Louis (Ndar), la page commence par la mer : un outil pour les pirogues de Guet Ndar — vagues, houle et vent au large de la Langue de Barbarie — avec un rappel franc sur la barre, le gilet de sauvetage et le 119 en cas d'urgence en mer. Viennent ensuite les deux peines les plus partagées : un tableau où les voisins confirment, quartier par quartier, si l'eau ou le courant est coupé dans tout le secteur, avec les lignes officielles de SEN'EAU et de SENELEC. Et aussi la poussière de l'Harmattan et la chaleur au jour le jour, plus les numéros utiles — urgences, hôpital, eau, électricité — au même endroit.

Whittier is built around one fact: the Anton Anderson Memorial Tunnel is the only road in or out, it shares a single lane with the railroad, and it closes every night. The town page leads with a tunnel tool that works out, from your clock, the next opening each way and the last way home tonight — with the tolls, a seasonal-pass break-even calculator, and a flag for the freezing-weather rule. Alongside it: which days cruise ships are in and how busy the waterfront will be, who to call when there is no hospital in town, and a noticeboard for the picks and tips that usually travel by word of mouth.

Cochem now has its first tools: the live Mosel level and flow at the historic Cochem gauge — recording since 1817 — with its recent range and the official Rhineland-Palatinate flood-warning link; and a consolidated calendar of the town's 2026 wine festivals, markets and castle events, each with its source.

Heidelberg now has its first tools: the live Neckar level at the Heidelberg gauge (with the city's gauge-to-street marks and the HVZ flood-warning link); a parking-cost comparison across the central Parkhäuser; and a community board where residents answer the questions the city keeps asking — starting with which Hausarzt is taking new Kassenpatienten. More to come.

The live river-level tool can now read Germany's PEGELONLINE network (the federal WSV gauges), alongside France's Hub'Eau. German pages show the level in centimetres, the way a Pegel is read locally, and link the official flood-warning service for the river. First used on the Neckar at Heidelberg and the Mosel at Cochem.

The bushfire-status tool can now read Queensland's official feed. The Queensland Fire Department publishes current bushfire and hazard-reduction-burn incidents as open data (CC BY 4.0), updated every 30 minutes; the tool filters it to plain-language distance bands around a town, lists planned burns separately from wildfires, and always points to the official warnings and Triple Zero. First used in Maleny, and reusable for any Queensland town.

Maleny, high on the Blackall Range, now has its first tools — shaped by a town that takes its own preparedness seriously. There's a live bushfire check that reads the Queensland Fire Department's official feed and tells you whether anything is burning near town (planned hazard-reduction burns are listed separately); a wet-season rain picture comparing the last 30 days with the long-term average and the week ahead; a what's-on board with the Sunday market and the big annual events; and the local numbers worth keeping handy, including the SES for storms and floods.

Ushuaia, al final del mundo entre el monte Martial y el Canal Beagle, estrena sus primeras herramientas. Hay un tablero del agua donde los vecinos avisan, barrio por barrio, si hay corte —la fricción de todos los días en las zonas altas y en invierno—, con la línea oficial de la DPOSS; una página que mira el viento hora por hora y dice cuándo afloja; respuestas claras sobre la RN3 y el Paso Garibaldi, el aeropuerto con temporal y a quién llamar según sea del Municipio o de la Provincia; y una guía de teléfonos útiles. Para usar el tablero del agua hay que iniciar sesión; el resto es público.

Queenstown, on Lake Wakatipu, now has its first tools — built for the people who live and work there through a hard winter. There's a winter air-quality check for the woodsmoke that settles in the basin on cold nights; a plain-language guide for new arrivals and seasonal workers covering the roads and passes (Crown Range and the Kawarau Gorge), snow chains, the rent reality, buses, doctors and the airport curfew; the local numbers worth saving; and a clear rundown of the newer rules residents keep looking up — chains on council roads, the freedom-camping bylaw and the proposed overnight parking ban.

A new tool answers 'is tonight worth heading out for the northern lights?' by combining NOAA's space-weather model, the cloud forecast and the hours of darkness — and it says plainly when the sky never gets dark enough to see them. First used in Churchill, Manitoba.

Tres herramientas para empezar: un tablero vecinal de agua por zona (¿hay agua hoy?), una guía para cuidarte de la altura y visitar el Cerro Rico con respeto, y un planificador mes a mes con el clima y las fiestas.

Three tools to start: tonight's aurora outlook (space-weather activity, cloud and the hours of darkness, together), the numbers worth saving from the Polar Bear Alert line down, and a month-by-month guide to belugas, bears and the northern lights.

Four tools to start: how busy downtown will be on any day, the cheapest way to park (the free Train Station lot versus the downtown pay zone), today's air and wildfire-smoke reading, and straight answers on residency, park fees, the buses and wildlife.

The neighbour-reported board that towns use for power cuts and dry taps can now also track a blocked road — built for single-access towns where a landslide can cut the only way in and there is no channel to say so.

The markets, festivals and music coming up around town, gathered in one place with the source for each. Dated events drop off once they've passed.

Port Fairy now has its own page, starting with a what's-on board for markets, festivals and music.

An hour-by-hour look at when the wind eases on the exposed summit today and tomorrow, so you can pick a calm window — whether you take the chairlift or walk up. It forecasts the wind; the operator still decides whether the chairlift runs.

Stanley now has its own page, starting with a wind outlook for The Nut.

What each month is really like on the ridge — mountain views, the monsoon and the state of the road, festivals, crowds and room prices.

Neighbours and drivers can mark the stretch where the road up from Dumre is blocked, so the next person can check before setting out. Reports clear themselves after a day, and the municipality line is there to report a closure.

Bandipur now has its own page, starting with two tools: a neighbour-reported board for the Dumre road, and a month-by-month guide to the ridge.

A new tool kind reads live river height and flow from France's open Hub'Eau service, places today's reading against the river's own recent range, and always links the official flood-vigilance service for the safety call. First used for the Arve at Chamonix; the kind is built to add more national gauges next.

Quatre outils pour commencer : le niveau de l'Arve en direct (avec le lien vers la vigilance crue Vigicrues), la qualité de l'air heure par heure et le contexte des pics de pollution, une FAQ logement/stationnement/déchets pour les habitants et les saisonniers, et les numéros utiles dont le secours en montagne (PGHM).

Tres herramientas para empezar: un tablero del agua donde los vecinos avisan dónde falta el servicio y a quién llamar (con los datos de la CEA), una guía clara del acceso a la Peña (el cupo, la cima cerrada, horarios y estacionamiento) y un calendario de qué tan lleno está el pueblo cada día —incluyendo el aviso de que lunes y martes casi todo cierra.

Four tools to start: a live Oak Creek flood gauge read against the official National Weather Service thresholds, hour-by-hour heat windows for hiking before it gets dangerous, a how-busy-is-it planner for the trailheads and the Y, and a dark-sky stargazing guide for our Dark Sky Community.

When a town pins a status board (fishing seasons, traffic schemes, and the like) to its page, it now shows the next dated change at a glance instead of a plain card. Cape Coast's fishing rules and seasons board is the first to use it.

The note boxes that flag the thing you must not miss — closures, deadlines, all-clears — now carry a matching icon (a warning triangle, an info circle, or a success check) alongside their colour. That makes how urgent a note is readable at a glance, including for colour-blind readers and on washed-out phone screens.

A new kind reads a province's official open roads feed — DriveBC's Open511 feed first, under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia — and answers one question for towns with a single lifeline route: is the road open? It reads closures out of the feed's own wording, separates a full road closure from a lane closure or single-lane alternating traffic, and always points to the official live map. First use: Tofino on Highway 4.

Real de Catorce estrena cuatro herramientas. "El Túnel de Ogarrio y cómo llegar" reúne horarios, costos y cierres del único acceso en vehículo, cómo llegar desde Matehuala y a quién llamar en una emergencia. "¿Cuándo visitar?" describe mes a mes el clima a 2,750 metros, la temporada alta y la Fiesta de San Francisco. "Visitar Wirikuta con respeto" recoge lo que el pueblo wixárika pide de quien visita el desierto sagrado. Y "Recomendaciones de la gente" abre, por fin, un lugar donde vecinos y visitantes comparten lo que saben.

Tofino now has four tools, built around the one fact that shapes the town: Highway 4 is the only road in. "Is Highway 4 Open?" reads DriveBC's official feed and tells you plainly whether the road is closed, with roadwork and incidents along the whole corridor. Alongside it: official Tofino tide predictions, a live surf-and-sea read for Long Beach, Cox Bay and Chesterman, and an air-quality check built for summer wildfire-smoke days.

When a town pins its crop-prices tool, its page now leads with the latest survey price for the home market's staple crop, with the survey month, instead of a plain card.

Power faults and outages in Mzuzu and the north can now be reported on ESCOM's toll-free line 3030 — free from Airtel and TNM lines. It is listed under Who to call and in the power-cuts answer in Common questions. ESCOM's website was unreachable when we checked, but the toll-free line still works.

Answers in the Common Questions tool now turn phone numbers, email addresses and web links into one-tap tel:, mailto: and website links — so on a phone you can ring the council or open a page without copying anything out by hand. The matching is deliberately careful, leaving dates, prices and postcodes as plain text.

Towns with a river running through them — Leavenworth on the Wenatchee first — now have a float-conditions tool. It reads the live USGS streamflow and places it against the flow bands American Whitewater publishes for the run, so it reports the river's size and difficulty in plain words rather than inventing a 'safe to float' threshold, which no public source gives. It pairs the live number with the float season, the put-ins and take-outs, and a river-safety section.

Leavenworth is online with four tools built around what the valley actually asks. "Is the River Running?" reads the live Wenatchee flow and places it against American Whitewater's published bands, with the float season and how to stay safe on cold water. "Weather Warnings" shows the National Weather Service alerts in force — storms, floods, fire weather and heat. "How's the Smoke?" gives today's air quality for wildfire season. And "When to Visit (and Where to Park)" lays out the calm and the packed weekends, with the free park-and-ride shuttle for when downtown fills.

Álamos ya está en línea con tres herramientas pensadas para lo que más pesa aquí. «¿Se fue la luz?» es un tablero vecinal para ver y reportar los apagones por colonia —para saber si es sólo tu casa o toda la zona—, junto con la línea 071 de la CFE. «¿Cuándo baja el calor?» lee hora por hora el pronóstico y señala las horas más llevaderas, con cuidado para los adultos mayores cuando el calor y un corte de luz coinciden. Y «A quién llamar» reúne los teléfonos que de verdad se necesitan, empezando por el 911.

A 'can I light a fire today?' date checker that always defers to the day's Total Fire Ban; an open/closed board for trails and accesses to a national park; and a stargazing planner that computes the moon phase and the hours of true darkness from astronomy alone — no internet feed, so it is always current.

Las primeras herramientas: qué tan llena estará la Villa por día (con los puentes y el plan vial de diciembre), el cielo de esta noche para ver estrellas, las recomendaciones de quienes viven aquí y un directorio de a quién llamar.

Las primeras herramientas: un tablero de qué senderos del Parque Nacional El Chico están abiertos o cerrados, una guía de qué tan lleno estará el pueblo (con avisos de la combi y el estacionamiento) y un directorio de a quién llamar.

First tools for the Shire of Denmark: a date checker for whether you can light a fire (with the Total Fire Ban channel), a beach-crowding guide for Greens Pool and Elephant Rocks, and a who-to-call directory.