Calling for help early saves lives
We used some high tech yesterday to locate the subjects of a search, but the real credit goes to calling for help early!
Tag: GPS
Locating lost people using smart phones
People don’t know how to make their smart phone show their location, so I created a service that lets SAR track a person’s location via their smart phone.
TrueNorth is in beta testing
After many years of development, my mapping project TrueNorth is in beta testing.
Confusing an estimate with reality
It can be hazardous when a bad user interface makes people believe something is exact when it’s an estimate, or even worse, a guess.
GPS Dilution of Error Notice
A known GPS dilution of accuracy event will occur tomorrow (January 16) from 14:15 to 14:45 local time.
Stop with the Smart Phones already
People are still under the impression a Smart Phone can replace a GPS in the wilderness, and they’re still wrong.
SARScene 2012 Presentation
This year I gave a presentation titled “Best Practices in Managing Geospatial Data for SAR Teams”
Measuring Smartphone GPS accuracy
Measuring the accuracy of a Smartphone GPS, showing that it is signifcantly less accurate than a wilderness GPS
Your GPS is lying to you
Your GPS is lying or, at the very least, you’re probably misinterpreting what it’s saying