[Talk-us] Using OSM for emergency routing?

[Anthony]

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 9:18 AM, Lord-Castillo, Brett
<BLord-Castillo at stlouisco.com> wrote:
> In our jurisdiction, we have 370,000 roads and 800+ bridges. We basically use a whole bunch of radio dispatchers looking at live edited maps for routing. Just building a routing network has been a massive undertaking (and, unfortunately, OSM is nowhere close to sufficient in our area right now).
>
So, GPS devices in the vehicles, which relay location to the radio
dispatcher, and then the radio dispatcher relays the routing info back
over the radio?

Sounds pretty awesome.  Must be manpower-intensive, though?