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Cell phone locations

By Michael Coyle Posted on 27/09/2009 Posted in Blog Entry Tagged with communications, GPS, map, SAR, technology
Cell phone locations

The SAR team has had a run of searches at inopportune times. The first one was after an all night search, so we rolled from the first search, into breakfast …

How to Convert PDF files to images

By Michael Coyle Posted on 20/01/2009 Posted in Blog Entry Tagged with how-to, technology

Let’s say that someone has provided you with some highly detailed maps, these maps are in PDF format. Our mapping application needs them to be images. There are about 150 of these files. How do I convert PDFs to images? …

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