Interesting article, of course. Now feel free to tag the following as as "snide remark".
I have to point out that the South Succotash Fire and Emergency Med's team have been doing this kind of "GIS" thing for some years now, just up the street from some of you. Not calling it that, but rather Computer-Aided-Dispatch (CAD), an example being our free Open Source CAD (www.ticketscad.org), targeted to teams (often smaller, or all volunteer) who'd rather spend scarce $ on comm's or equipment. Like where's the target/Incident, where are suitably qualified,equipped and available responders, and who's closest time-wise? Believe me when I say that I understand the scale/urgency/availability issues involved. But the SSFEM guys deal with life-threatening situations on a day-in, day-out basis. Because the smaller teams typically have so little $$$ to spend they're just not seen as an attractive market. Therefore, Tickets CAD. (The larger jurisdictions typically WILL commit $ to commercial CAD products, and live with the problems attendant upon proprietary products.) For my money, these teams are the authentic backbone of homeland security . So there! AS On 9/27/12, Schlagel, Joel D IWR <joel.d.schla...@usace.army.mil> wrote: > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > Caveats: NONE > > > An article in HS Today "GIS: The Backbone of Homeland Security" has a > section "Market Completion" which discusses open source geospatial. > > http://tinyurl.com/93pe7te > > or original link > > http://www.hstoday.us/briefings/today-s- > news-analysis/single-article/gis-the-bac > kbone-of-homeland-security/f7d007dd6e163 > 400213773406b6b6dd3.html > > > Classification: UNCLASSIFIED > Caveats: NONE > > _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss