Hey Mother....

[ryandalling]

I was talking to the Captain of the new fire station by our house... and he indicated that some of the drivers were using iPhones for mapping calls.... cause it was better than the system they had. He said that their system was pretty good at incorporating building floor plans into the map... but at getting them to the location... the iPhone was beating it out every time. You peeps up on the mountain notice the same thing?]

I just found it odd that our EMT's had a super expensive system in their rig that they weren't really using.

Odd.

Made me want to go out and get an iPhone.

By the way... how you doing? How was the South?

You gonna be at the track this weekend?

[Mother]

well, on the mountain we use map books that we make ourselves

after the man hours are calculated to do the mapping, paper and ink bought, computer, map making progam, and printer purchased

our mapbooks end up costing around 500 bucks a piece, with a failure rate entirely dependent on the user

in town

we use an HP Go Book with an integrated AVL, electronic mapping system, and CADS (Computer Aided Dispatching System)

each laptop computer costs around $6800.00 and the rest of the equipment with service contracts puts the bill in around 8 million

Failure rate is 100%

The computer does something called Geoverification

that mean the computer is off a few numbers every single time

sometimes upwards of 2 to 3 miles if the houses are scattered far apart

so without fail it fails 100% of the time.

Not to mention that the computer is so locked down with security and other crap

it isn't unheard of to have to do a hard reboot of the computer 8-9 times in a night

because it will just lock up and go black


a lot of poeple use the Iphone or Itouch, or bring their own Tomtom

and they are consistently more accurate..except when they do fail, they fail huge

regardless of the innaccuracy of our system or the accuracy of the smaller more modern tech

there is still the human error issue of entering info into your tomtom wrong

where as the CADS system does it all via remote

therefor the responsibility of any errors is consolidated to a single system vs. accountability being spread out to every single dewd with a hand held GPS

and it is hard to explain why you are 10-15 miles away from a call when you didn't use your issued equipment

[ryandalling]

Makes sense.


How you doing?

[Mother]

Makes sense.


How you doing?

I drank budwieser last night

so I am hungover, bloated, and my bowels are producing a non-stop stream of fumes to rival what maurice creates on a daily basis

how you doin?

you racing Sunday?

[ryandalling]

I wish I could race on Sunday... I may sneak some TOR 20 minutes in here or there... but I am working with Blinky picking up all the downed bikes. Very interesting work.  I am good though. I need a drink. Been a long day.

[Visolara]

I produce a fine rose aroma, just ask Cierra.  she actually requests I whiff it in her general direction now.

Me thinks she a keeper!

[krolik]

Just you wait until Lil'Desmo makes his/her appearance, then you'll be in a world of stink.

[herm]

well, on the mountain we use map books that we make ourselves

after the man hours are calculated to do the mapping, paper and ink bought, computer, map making progam, and printer purchased

our mapbooks end up costing around 500 bucks a piece, with a failure rate entirely dependent on the user

in town

we use an HP Go Book with an integrated AVL, electronic mapping system, and CADS (Computer Aided Dispatching System)

each laptop computer costs around $6800.00 and the rest of the equipment with service contracts puts the bill in around 8 million

Failure rate is 100%

The computer does something called Geoverification

that mean the computer is off a few numbers every single time

sometimes upwards of 2 to 3 miles if the houses are scattered far apart

so without fail it fails 100% of the time.

Not to mention that the computer is so locked down with security and other crap

it isn't unheard of to have to do a hard reboot of the computer 8-9 times in a night

because it will just lock up and go black


a lot of poeple use the Iphone or Itouch, or bring their own Tomtom

and they are consistently more accurate..except when they do fail, they fail huge

regardless of the innaccuracy of our system or the accuracy of the smaller more modern tech

there is still the human error issue of entering info into your tomtom wrong

where as the CADS system does it all via remote

therefor the responsibility of any errors is consolidated to a single system vs. accountability being spread out to every single dewd with a hand held GPS

and it is hard to explain why you are 10-15 miles away from a call when you didn't use your issued equipment

lat/long...............?
 

[bnbmike]

45º   12'   0.31"
123º 57' 37.61"

[herm]

N  43° 1'12.33"
W  71°36'0.13"

[Mother]

yeah yeah, township and stuff

I have long forgotten true mapping

[herm]

yeah yeah, township and stuff, range, section

I have long forgotten true mapping

[jdubbs32584]

someones pokin the bear




saves me the trouble 

[Gator]

I drank budwieser last night

so I am hungover, bloated, and my bowels are producing a non-stop stream of fumes to rival what maurice creates on a daily basis

How does it compare to the vodka at motocorsa, gin at the gypsy, pan cakes in the morning, and almost getting me evicted night?

I dont think anyone at that place has ever seen someone sweating or swearing so much at 10 am...

[Tailgunner]

Is 13 GB?