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

[Eric Patrick]

I wasn't changing the question. I'm shedding light on the bigger picture. I
live next to a 3.1 million acre swamp that runs into a lot of the problems
I had mentioned. If Greg could come up with something where he lives (and I
don't know where that is), it could possibly be implemented with other
departments around the country or tailored for other departments around the
country.

On Mon, Sep 12, 2022 at 10:57 PM Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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