[talk-au] Usage of Openstreetmap at EMSINA

[Graeme Fitzpatrick]

Carrying on from this discussion, just spotted this mentioned on Discord:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgk9al1rluE

Very interesting, especially in regard to what we were talking about!

Thanks

Graeme


On Wed, 31 Aug 2022 at 23:49, Ewen Hill <ewen.hill at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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>
> --
> Warm Regards
>
> Ewen Hill
>
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