NSW bushfires: mapping the spread of the blazes

The New South Wales rural fire service releases updates to the burned area from bushfires through its RSS feed.

I've taken snapshots of these from Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday to compare movement in the bushfire areas.

Thankfully, most of the fires have remained largely contained.

This map shows the outbreak of the bushfire near Dudley on Wednesday afternoon through to Thursday morning:

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Here's the Lithgow and Mount Victoria fire comparing Tuesday and Wednesday:

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Here's the Minmi fire near Newcastle, showing hourly movements for Wednesday from 1:38 through to 4:48:

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And here's the fire at Springwood, which has again been well contained:

Map data ©2013 Google, Cnes/Spot Image, DigitalGlobe, Landsat. Click here to enlarge or view on mobiles