[talk-au] Usage of Openstreetmap at EMSINA

[Adam Steer]

Hi Graeme - this is exactly what I was thinking about in my question
earlier - make mapping part of the job. Also great to hear OSMAnd+ in
there (my choice of personal navigator for offline missions in both
Australia and Norway )

Also want to touch on a point Ewen made. I was at Taylors crossing
(Vic, on this patch:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=16/-36.8418/147.6456) in the
2019/20 summer. No EMS is coming there - and comms are super flaky
between Benambra and Corryong - that whole region. A lot of common
ground with the linked talk. It makes a lot of sense to spend EMS time
mapping things that are relevant for offline use later - IMO far more
effective use of funding than infrastructure which then needs
protecting to support apps / services which may fail offline.

Relevant to this, I'm looking for the next career, I'd be super happy
to work on this stuff - and likely back in Au sometime in January 23.

Cheers

Adam

On Tue, 13 Sept 2022 at 06:27, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Carrying on from this discussion, just spotted this mentioned on Discord: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgk9al1rluE
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> Very interesting, especially in regard to what we were talking about!
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> Thanks
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> Graeme
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> On Wed, 31 Aug 2022 at 23:49, Ewen Hill <ewen.hill at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>>    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.
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>> Now, if we could not put transmission towers on top of hills because there is one flaw in all of this.
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>> Ewen
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>> On Wed, 31 Aug 2022 at 10:10, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com> wrote:
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