a major selling point can focus on out of district response; often FDs know their own area well, but when they go to support other companies they often don't know a whole lot about the place they're responding to.
richard On 2/3/20 6:59 PM, Mike N wrote: > Mike, > It is a rather unique set of circumstances that make this project a > good fit: > - The county does not map most driveways > - The degree of rural-ness, hills, and trees > - Most trees are deciduous, making the off-leaf imagery good for > locating hidden driveways. > - The region is a mix of economics - some nice newer houses, many > older houses / trailers. The FD must manage their budget carefully: > they declined the $15K app from the county that probably just shows GIS > data with latest roads and address numbers. It wouldn't necessarily > locate driveway entrances since the data doesn't have those. Even if it > showed off-leaf imagery, a co-pilot wouldn't have time to study out a > driveway on the way to a call. > > If the official data source did have driveways and a navigation app, > I'll admit it would be hard to try OSM. Or even the fire district I > live in with much shorter driveways, {CommercialMapper} would find > nearly every address almost exactly. > > The fire chief is eager to present the project to the next meeting of > fire chiefs in the area. I'll be interested to hear the comments from > the other districts. > > Mike > > > On 2/3/2020 9:57 AM, Mike Thompson wrote: >> Mike, >> >> That is a very compelling story. Thanks to you and the other OSM >> folks involved for making it happen and to you for writing the diary >> entry. I have often thought that OSM would be a great resource >> emergency responders because in some areas it contains data that no >> one else has, but generally the reaction that I have gotten when I >> have suggested this to such officials was "we have our own data", "we >> have already invested in xyz system" (sunk cost fallacy), or "how can >> we trust OSM?". The exception was a search and rescue group that used >> OSM to help locate missing people in the back country because OSM >> contains trails that no other source has. >> >> Is this being publicised outside of the OSM community? There are >> probably associations for fire fighters and other emergency response >> professionals and perhaps someone from the FD involved could speak >> about this project at one of their conferences to get agencies in >> other parts of the country (or world) interested. >> >> Mike >> > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-us mailing list > Talk-us@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us -- rwe...@averillpark.net Averill Park Networking - GIS & IT Consulting OpenStreetMap - PostgreSQL - Linux Java - Web Applications - Search _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us