<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><br clear="all"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 29 Aug 2022 at 20:42, Michael Collinson <<a href="mailto:mike@ayeltd.biz">mike@ayeltd.biz</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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ask a mate in the Victoria CFA.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Son has a mate in Qld RFS so got him to ask last night.</div><div><br></div><div>"It's a QFES app for iPads, that's slowly rolling out to RFS as well. Fully interactive, they can draw fire fronts over a map and other units can see it in real time. Prior to that though, they get around by GPS and mud maps"</div><div><br></div><div>No more info than that, but if it's on an iPad, I'd assume it's using Apple Maps? & I believe Apple are starting to use OSM info?</div><div><br></div><div>I know that when the fires were all happening, there were a lot of complaints that the publicly-accessible QFES maps were woeful, with regard to location & frequency of being updated, & they made the comment that they use a much better system themselves "but it would be too complicated for civilian viewers to understand"! :roll eyes:<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks<div><br></div><div>Graeme</div></div><br></div></div>