[talk-au] Usage of Openstreetmap at EMSINA

[Ewen Hill]

A really great thread. Sometime early this century, the Victorian CFA used
local brigades to confirm mapping. This became the original
paperbasedSpatial Vision Maps. We now have the Common Operating Platform or
EM-COP that does much the same as Graeme's QFES above but has a
proprietary basemap.

   It works really well and allows updates by the Fire Behavioural Analysts
(FBANS) and other Intel staff, BOM staff, warnings officers and  local
incident controllers as well as strike team leaders commanding 4 or so fire
tankers.

Now, if we could not put transmission towers on top of hills because there
is one flaw in all of this.

Ewen

On Wed, 31 Aug 2022 at 10:10, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Mon, 29 Aug 2022 at 20:42, Michael Collinson <mike at ayeltd.biz> wrote:
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>>  I'll ask a mate in the Victoria CFA.
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>
> 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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Warm Regards

Ewen Hill
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