Ronan Heffernan wrote:
>> Would this work with any lats and longs? At our PSAP the cell phone
>> companies are listing lats and longs for location of the caller.
>> Right now all we get is the location of the tower which does no good
>> at all. So far two cell phone companies have completed this and we
>> are waiting for the rest to finish. My boss has been looking at
>> software where we can enter the lats and longs and get an address or
>> even a basic location within about 50 yards or less of the caller.
>> Are you doing this for work, a company, or just doing it because you
>> can? I have been trying to get the fire department here to go over
>> to Linux based CAD and get away from Winblows for all the obvious
>> reasons. This might just get them started. Please let me know, Maureen
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> GRASS will plot a lat/long pair on the screen or to a graphic file,
> but it doesn't know how to turn that into a street address. Would it
> help you to have a map with the coordinate plotted on it?
>
> --ronan
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Basically what they are looking at is a program that will take the lats
and longs and at the very least give us coordinates that would overlay a
map of the county we work in and give us a street, intersection, or
nearby address. That way when a cell phone caller cannot tells us where
they are we can still find them and render the help they need. I have
been trying to get them over to Linux for three years but its an uphill
battle. When I was taking to my boss about the program he was looking
at he stated that it would be on a separate computer from our CAD so if
I can find one that would do the job in LINUX it would at least give
them a very good taste in stability, reliablity in an OS that all
Emergeny Services should be using. (at least that's my humble opinion)
If this is something you can do I will gladly give you my bosses name
and number. It would be a government contract (county) and may help
both of us. Maureen
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