[Talk-us] offline OSM viewers for Windows, for Police/Fire?

[Bill Ricker]

On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 10:18 PM Eric Patrick <txemt1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm not saying this is a bad idea, I'm merely pointing out a few other
> options you may need/want to consider for this project.
>

Not everyone has to do Rocky Mountain SAR.
So no, don't change the question.
Consider the question as it stands under arm-chair mapping rules:
please always assume your fellow volunteers know their town better than you
do
(at least until proven otherwise; and if you'd seen Greg's prior posts,
you'd understand that won't be the case here).

Greg knows what his local suburban police department are *ready* for,
and Greg knows very well what cell service is on his town's trails, since
he's mapped them while connected.
For a true wilderness, yes, patrol car laptops would be useless. A ranger
buggy can sometimes traverse parkland trails.

For a suburban 40 acre nature preserve, if the cop can translate the
cellphone lat-long received at E911 (which implies cell service where the
victim or witness is, minutes ago) to spot on a trail on a map, s/he can
then translate that into which trailhead is closest (without having to
trust dispatch's judgement) and note which two turns to take going in,
which s/he can scribble that on the back of a parking ticket before heading
in to find out if the solo jogger in trouble needs more than one shoulder
to lean on to get out. No new hardware needed ($$ or filing grants and wait
18 months to get it).

(Would we like to convert PD/FD/EMS into loading Custom maps from OSM data
and town GIS data into a Garmin or Android or ... ? Sure. Not this week.)
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