<div dir="ltr">I wasn't changing the question. I'm shedding light on the bigger picture. I live next to a 3.1 million acre swamp that runs into a lot of the problems I had mentioned. If Greg could come up with something where he lives (and I don't know where that is), it could possibly be implemented with other departments around the country or tailored for other departments around the country. </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 10:57 PM Bill Ricker <<a href="mailto:bill.n1vux@gmail.com">bill.n1vux@gmail.com</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"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 10:18 PM Eric Patrick <<a href="mailto:txemt1@gmail.com" target="_blank">txemt1@gmail.com</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"><div dir="ltr"><div>I'm not saying this is a bad idea, I'm merely pointing out a few other options you may need/want to consider for this project.</div></div></blockquote><div><br><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">Not everyone has to do Rocky Mountain SAR.<br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">So no, don't change the question. <br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">Consider the question as it stands under arm-chair mapping rules: <br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">please always assume your fellow volunteers know their town better than you do</div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">(at least until proven otherwise; and if you'd seen Greg's prior posts, you'd understand that won't be the case here).<br></div><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">Greg knows what his local suburban police department are <i>ready</i> for, <br>and Greg knows very well what cell service is on his town's trails, since he's mapped them while connected.</div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default"></div></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">For a true wilderness, yes, patrol car laptops would be useless. A ranger buggy can sometimes traverse parkland trails.<br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">For a suburban 40 acre nature preserve, if the cop can translate the cellphone lat-long received at E911 (which implies cell service where the victim or witness is, minutes ago) to spot on a trail on a map, s/he can then translate that into which trailhead is closest (without having to trust dispatch's judgement) and note which two turns to take going in, which s/he can scribble that on the back of a parking ticket before heading in to find out if the solo jogger in trouble needs more than one shoulder to lean on to get out. No new hardware needed ($$ or filing grants and wait 18 months to get it). <br></div><br><div style="font-family:georgia,serif" class="gmail_default">(Would we like to convert PD/FD/EMS into loading Custom maps from OSM data and town GIS data into a Garmin or Android or ... ? Sure. Not this week.)<br></div><br></div>
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