On Monday 04 February 2008, Tom Russo wrote: > On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 09:24:58AM -0500, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: > > Hey Folks, > > > > I'm looking for people that either use GRASS or would like to use GRASS > > as a part of a mapping solution for volunteer search and rescue groups. > > What a timely request. I'm just such a person, and have *just* this week > started a mailing list for local SAR volunteers to explore using GRASS for > SAR planning, but it's pretty much a case of the one-eyed guy with > cataracts leading the blind. I am very much interested. > > > Any links to case articles would be great too. > > Here's a trivial one I cooked up a couple weeks ago (unfortunately) *after* > a multi-day search for stranded snowboarders in extreme weather conditions: > http://www.swcp.com/~russo/080103/ > > A textbook toy GIS problem that highlighted how well a GIS could have been > used had a volunteer knowledgeable enough to use it been in the command > post. The set of such volunteers is microscopic, though, and I hope to > change that in this area.
Nice example application- very impressive use of basic GIS and location data. I can see tools like this fitting in with the r.cost / r.walk modules nicely. Dylan -- Dylan Beaudette Soil Resource Laboratory http://casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/ University of California at Davis 530.754.7341 _______________________________________________ grass-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user
