Paul, pls keep us current on LL's activities on this. My interest is
in possible uses by local gov't public safety agencies.
(FYI, I've worked with some LL people back in the late 50's during the
Whirlwind/SAGE days.)
AS
On 2/3/14, Breimyer, Paul - 0442 - MITLL paul.breim...@ll.mit.edu wrote:
one's-own-horn-tooting
Our Open Source CAD (Computer-Aided-Dispatching, at www.ticketscad.org
) has included for several years now the feature in which given the
incident location, the application returns the list of response units,
ordered by proximity, with driving directions - Google
Well, adherence to standards is integral to the issue of
interoperability, a critical project success factor in this
increasingly interconnected world.
And, there's no motivation for vendor lock-in, since the revenue
protection motivation (usually!) doesn't exist. (I can tell you re
all of the
An application area often ignored in the GIS community is that of
Computer-Aided-Dispatch, a key element of emergency response, in which
location data is clearly critical.
Our Open Source CAD, Tickets by name, is one example. (www.ticketscad.org)
On 9/30/13, Barry Rowlingson
You're not dependent on the vendor's business plans, which are
determined mostly by their marketing people.
AS
On 9/12/13, Newcomb, Doug doug_newc...@fws.gov wrote:
You don't have to wait for a year or more to have access to a
bugfix/enhancement of the software, you can try it right away and
All, my ears are way up on this. In addition to a native one written
by Andy here, we're doing AVL within our Tickets CAD application by
connecting to the respective proprietary servers, rather than
accommodating n end-devices (where n is a large number!)
We've written parsers for each of the
-boun...@lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Arnie Shore
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Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Public Safety OSGeo Interests Here?
I'd be interested in hearing from any of you with interests in the Public
Safety applications area.
I for one have
I'd be interested in hearing from any of you with interests in the
Public Safety applications area.
I for one have such interests, being one of the developers behind our
Open Source (mostly) Computer-Aided-Dispatch application, Tickets by
name, in which geo plays a major role.
In truth my
WRT learning curves, let me add OpenLayers to that list; I've come to
favor Leaflet/cloudmade over OL as a result of its comparative ease of
use - at least with my not-too-demanding requirements.
AS
On 1/4/13, Randal Hale rjh...@northrivergeographic.com wrote:
I agree - GRASS is awesome
WISECRACKThe Good Lord must love standards - She made so many of
them!/WISECRACK
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On 9/27/12, bachi polavarupu bachi.polavar...@gmail.com wrote:
hi i am a large taxi operator from india...i want a custom build gps
tracking software where all the vehicles will apear in my website and my
office staff will able to allot taxis near to the
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
I hope no one here is party to any of this, but I have to share it.
See http://www.drc-group.com/project/footprint.html
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I dunno who's eligible to vote here, but this lurker - who's committed
to using OSM in our F/OSS projects only because of OL's opening our
eyes to it - strongly agrees.
AS
On 9/18/12, Richard Greenwood richard.greenw...@gmail.com wrote:
I Nominate Christopher Schmidt for the Sol Katz Award. I
Interested, here, although participation will depend on several
factors, including your thoughts re appropriateness.
I'm the chief cook and bottle-washer on an Open Source
Computer-Aided-Dispatch application - see www.ticketscad.org.
While our geo engine currently is GMaps, we're moving that
A quick word here to encourage consider adding public safety to the
topics addressed at conferences such as this. This wd include crisis
response, medical emergency handling, police and fire systems.
Although some of these application areas have reached a level of
maturity data-wise, adding
Maybe onclick = event.cancelBubble = true; someplace in the chain,
if it's bubbling doing that.
On 8/31/12, Dori izzybit...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I need to create a popup window with a form to be processed in 2 different
ways: clicking on map or entering a location identifier in a form on a
Possibly on the edges of this discussion, but let me raise this point
focused at OSGeo Advocates here as well as practitioners in general.
I'm the project leader on a free Open Source project that makes
available a Computer-Aided Dispatch (CAD) application, typically used
by emergency response
My take is that the major item not readily available is a notification
mechanism, to be triggered when something changes, with users
registering themselves with some kind of call-back function.
I dunno what's avaiable in desktop software libraries for this, but I
see html5 providing such a
/developerworks/xml/tutorials/x-realtimeXMPPtut/section3.html
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On 2/17/12, Dave Patton da...@confluence.org wrote:
On 2012/02/17 11:51 AM, Arnie Shore wrote:
BTW, I believe the OP is looking for handling not a random file
(hardly that!) but an 'arbitrary' user-selected one.
Arnie is correct - I
Steve, thanks. I'll discard the code I'd started with, then. ;-}
AS
On 1/17/12, Stephen Woodbridge wood...@swoodbridge.com wrote:
Arnie,
I think that there is no simple answer ... snip /
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Folks, the ADC Map grid system is proprietary, and I'm searching for
any available tools to assist in converting grid id to lat/lng.
Thanks for any information.
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I wonder if someone can describe what's seen as the
tall-pole-in-the-tent here, difficulty-wise.
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to familiarize those not already aware that
CAD is, arguably, THE GIS application, and to encourage those of you
to devote some thought to how the skills and creativity on clear
display here might be focused to meet the needs I've expanded a bit
upon above.
Arnie Shore
Project Tickets CAD
All, esp Karsten, I wonder if you've given consideration to the feasibility
of a solution based on web services;
If feasible, this could bypass the issue you correctly raise re what data
storage solution you would recommend , since the function of the service wd
be to return data in one of the
I wonder if i cd make a pitch here for consideration being paid to a
not-very-exciting application of GEO-technology, Computer-Aided-Dispatch.
It's a mainstay of local law enforcement agencies - and is ubiquitous in the
world of local government law enforcement and emergency response as well as
Great addition indeed; thanks to all who've contributed to this release.
I wonder if there's a demo site, or examples, or ???
I semi-know my way around OSM/OL, but JQuery is new, and I've really,
really, really been looking for an OL wrapper like this. My plans are to
integrate it with a
I wonder if your charter includes addressing major functional/application
specialties - notably emergency response and public safety.
AS
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Suchith Anand
suchith.an...@nottingham.ac.uk wrote:
Thanks Dave. We want to broaden and expand on the work done by the ICA
The GMaps TOU expressly forbids vehicle-tracking, although tracking of
individuals is encouraged. That individuals are one-for-one with vehicles
clouds that requirement, but nonetheless the language holds. Go figger!
I expect that the terms address the fact that others own the basic imagery,
Not to argue - cuz it seems to be an excellent product - but notice Google
Maps in that list of supported mapping service providers, whose TOU for the
free package pretty much forbids vehicle tracking.
AS
On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Noli Sicad nsi...@gmail.com wrote:
OpenGTS™ - Open GPS
I don't know whether you consider Computer-Aided-Dispatch (CAD) under the
rubric of GIS software, but our project, Tickets CAD, certainly does
integrate data with mapping/geo technology. And it's free, and Open Source
predominantly, See at www.ticketscad.org.
And it is being used in some public
Hello there.
We have an Open Source Computer-Aided-Dispatch application we're making
available on the cloud.
While its mapping engine - for now - is one of the GYM geo-platforms, the
balance is Open Source. On the cloud, it is free to public service
agencies.
See at www.ticketscad.org
Arnie
Let me add my $.02: I'd been looking for a reduced-pain method of
converting to OL from the GMaps API, the target being a local/server-based
OL/OSM implementation in the absence of Internet connectivity.
I have the maps stored and accessible, but my GMaps function calls need
translation. I
, of course.
Arnie Shore
Lead Developer
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Miles Fidelman mfidel...@meetinghouse.net
wrote:
Charlie Schweik wrote:
OSGeo colleagues,
A colleague of mine is publishing an article in Government Technology
Magazine. At the end of the article he wants to list some
A semi-minor point, re ... Google prohibits offline caching of their data.
... : Not axactly. The major TOU restriction is that their images may be
used *only* with their API.
OpenLayers accommodates that restriction by wrapping OL around that API
code.
AS
From a lurker: What's unclear - to me, at least - is whether or not the
user interface is to be via standard web browser. (An application cd be
considered 'web-based' with or without such.)
AS
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:36 AM, doug_newc...@fws.gov wrote:
Mayank,
I'm a bit
Bobb, hiya. Now, ... grab the tiles ... from where?
I have a PHP script that given corner coords and zoom range, will build a
directory set of tiles DL'd from OSM. (And the Open layers script that will
call it.)
Dunno if this is close?
AS
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Bob Basques
No need to screen-scrape; the GMaps API provides for geocoding in both
directions.
Secondly, White Pages also provides an API for US telco land-line numbers.
See http://developer.whitepages.com/
NZ ??
AS
On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Mike Toews mwto...@gmail.com wrote:
FYI, the terms you
Bob, as an early step into moving tickets toward OSGeo, I've gathered the
OSM tile sets of an county area of somewhere around 3600 sq. mi, at zoom
levels from 9 to 17, for among other reasons to see what the storage server
requirements might be for a slippy map presentation with full zoom.
Which
Hello all. I'm the lead programmer of a free, Open Source (mostly!)
Computer-Aided-Dispatch application - Tickets by name - that's currently
GMaps-based, which we're planning to fork to the OSGeo world of OSM/Open
Layers. (Other considerations include PHP and MySQL bases as an OS-agnostic
web
Open source forces a dependence on the vendor's business plans - an issue
too infrequently noted in the discussions I've seen.
In our case - as the developer of an Open Source dispatch software - we had
user interest in integrating our package with asterisk, an Open Source pbx
system. Now with
does some gps tracking, with sources APRS, Google's
Latitude, Instamapper, Locatea, etc. You may have other sources in mind.
While you're welcome to anything we have, I'll certainly be interested in
your progress.
Arnie Shore
Annapolis, MD
Hi all,
I'm looking for something like OpenGTS
All, I too am most interested in the project's details, as well as in
the one that Louis has mentioned he's starting.
Behind my interested is the F/OSS (mostly) Caomoter-Aided Dispatch
application - Tickets CAD - that I'm planning to ,ove off its current
GMaps base to OL/OSM.
So do sharte
Milo, re ... I currently have some php code that ...
I'm collecting (scavenging!) PHP code taht will help me put together a
rather lightweight PHP-based tile capability, without relying on any of the
geo servers that are available.
So if yr code might help me in this, any bits, snippets,
WRT SMS cost, that's strictly a user issue/question of course. There are n
different plans out there (where n is a large number.)
And WRT yr routing data, (I note that we also provide the GMaps Street View)
what do you anticipate using as the data source?
Best wishes,
AS
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010
Apache, but it's run under IIS in the past.) It has been
under active development and use for approximately two years, and is
available from SourceForge.
Do come back with any questions, of course.
Arnie Shore
Annapolis, MD
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 7:27 PM, Louis Sayers lssay...@gmail.com wrote
I wd like very much to hear from anyone doing any work in subject area,
especially in moving to an OSM/OL base.
Intent here of course is to flatten the learning curve in an Open Source
application. Thanks, all.
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Has anyone here done any work re subject integration as a single
installation executable?
I have a PHP/MySQL OSS Computer-Aided-Dispatch application that uses GMaps,
Tickets by name, and I'm beginning to look at moving the geo element to OS.
MapGuide may represent a suitable platform for that
As a very interested lurker, and as one who has developed an Open Source
Computer-Aided-Dispatch system that has embedded google's maps product, I
can tell you that one of the deterrents I see is the relative complexity of
an Open Source GIS implementation - as compared to the use of GMaps, which
GMaps-based, and I do want
to move it to OSM/OL.
Arnie Shore
Annapolis, MD
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Boy, have you hit a hot button of mine!
But I think the research could profitably veer off a bit. Like there's only
one federal Department of X, but shift the focus to local government
agencies and things chang radically. Like there's like 4500 counties - not
to mention towns - and they're ALL
Folks, hello, and I wonder if anyone can share experiences doing such
a transition. (I've tried this question with the OpenLayers groups
without response but it was suggested that this group might help.)
Background: I've written a free, Open Source Computer-Aided Dispatch
application targeted
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