Carrying on from this discussion, just spotted this mentioned on Discord: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgk9al1rluE
Very interesting, especially in regard to what we were talking about! Thanks Graeme On Wed, 31 Aug 2022 at 23:49, Ewen Hill <[email protected]> wrote: > A really great thread. Sometime early this century, the Victorian CFA used > local brigades to confirm mapping. This became the original > paperbasedSpatial Vision Maps. We now have the Common Operating Platform or > EM-COP that does much the same as Graeme's QFES above but has a > proprietary basemap. > > It works really well and allows updates by the Fire Behavioural > Analysts (FBANS) and other Intel staff, BOM staff, warnings officers and > local incident controllers as well as strike team leaders commanding 4 or > so fire tankers. > > Now, if we could not put transmission towers on top of hills because there > is one flaw in all of this. > > Ewen > > On Wed, 31 Aug 2022 at 10:10, Graeme Fitzpatrick <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> >> >> On Mon, 29 Aug 2022 at 20:42, Michael Collinson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> I'll ask a mate in the Victoria CFA. >>> >> >> Son has a mate in Qld RFS so got him to ask last night. >> >> "It's a QFES app for iPads, that's slowly rolling out to RFS as well. >> Fully interactive, they can draw fire fronts over a map and other units can >> see it in real time. Prior to that though, they get around by GPS and mud >> maps" >> >> No more info than that, but if it's on an iPad, I'd assume it's using >> Apple Maps? & I believe Apple are starting to use OSM info? >> >> I know that when the fires were all happening, there were a lot of >> complaints that the publicly-accessible QFES maps were woeful, with regard >> to location & frequency of being updated, & they made the comment that they >> use a much better system themselves "but it would be too complicated for >> civilian viewers to understand"! :roll eyes: >> >> Thanks >> >> Graeme >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-au mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >> > > > -- > Warm Regards > > Ewen Hill > >
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