Contact: Carolyn
Marinan, Communications, 612-348-5969
The National
Weather Service has issued an excessive heat watch which will be effective through the end of the week.
The heat index is expected to reach 105 to 110 degrees during afternoon hours.
Hennepin County
Public Health has created an interactive map to help residents who don't have air
conditioning at home or work to find public places to escape the summer
heat. Young children, senior citizens and people who are sick or
overweight are most vulnerable.
Maps are
available for desktop and mobile devices.
The project
is a collaboration between Hennepin County Geographic Information Systems
(GIS) and Hennepin County Public Health.
Find a
way to keep cool
To assist in
escaping the heat, a link to our mobile mapping
application shows
cool options throughout Hennepin County including locations to Salvation Army
buildings, libraries, recreation centers, movie theaters, and shopping
malls.
People can
make the map close and personal by zooming in on a specific neighborhood; users
then can click on individual cooling locations for an address, days and hours
of operation, contact information and a website link, when possible.
Dig into
mapping data
The
application is only one part of a larger initiative to make public information
more usable for Hennepin County residents. Other projects include park maps,
public health information, construction, property values and taxation.
Applications are scattered throughout the county website, but several additional maps can be
found at www.hennepin.us/gis. Users familiar with GIS software
can also download data directly.
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