[talk-au] Usage of Openstreetmap at EMSINA

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

On Mon, 29 Aug 2022 at 20:42, Michael Collinson <mike at ayeltd.biz> wrote:

>
>  I'll ask a mate in the Victoria CFA.
>

Son has a mate in Qld RFS so got him to ask last night.

"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"

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?

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:

Thanks

Graeme
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