[Talk-GB] Gun Location Sensors

[Peter Millar]

I don't know if this is what Birmingham is using:
<http://gizmodo.com/5489449/tiny-sensor-listens-for-gunshots-identifying-the-gun-and-location>

If so, it doesn't look like verifying on the ground is going to be very practical.

The area covered by the system would be more interesting if it were obtainable.

----- "Jonathan Bennett" <openstreetmap at jonno.cix.co.uk> wrote:

> On 11/12/2010 16:27, Brian Prangle wrote:
> >
> > Here's a challenge and probably more of an ethical one than a
> physical 
> > one.  The installation of these by west Midlands Police in
> Birmingham 
> > has caused a stir in the news. Should we attempt to map them? 
> Despite 
> > their being installed in 31 US cities there's not a single picture
> of 
> > what they look like anywhere that I can find on the web, so I've got
> 
> > no idea what they look like. I wouldn't be surpised if they're 
> > disguised to look like CCTV cameras anyway. And as I said, it's 
> > probably an ethical problem as the whether we should map them at
> all.
> >
> You're assuming they actually exist at all.
> 
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