As gleaned from a review of last year's posts, a thought about the way forward in 2014:
A geospatial revolution is underway…
…which is occurring simultaneously in many different ways:
- Aerostats to Defend Washington, DC
- Google Glass for First Response
- Garmin First to Offer a Portable Heads-Up-Display
- 3D Mapping in Real-Time
- Smartphone Development Advances Earthquake Response Possibilities
- Gun Fire Reporting System Comes to South Florida
- "Bugs" to the Rescue
- Amazon is Developing a Delivery Drone
Innovative communities are finding ways to leverage that revolution,
- Awareness About Awareness
- Community Infrastructure Mapping System
- Real Time Crisis Mapping Comes to San Francisco
- "Predicative Policing" Comes to Infrastructure
- Trending: Using Satellites to Stop Human Disasters
while others have started catching-up to where they should be.
- FBI Uses GIS to Look for Bank Robbers
- Find'm Friday: FBI Uses Web Tools to Look for Boston Bombers
- Predictive Policing Comes to the U.K
Unfortunately, many decision makers in the Emergency Services Sector and geospatial communities have failed to understand the revolution. The consequences for the nation have been both expensive and deadly.
- "Furball" Friday - Real Danger While Flying Into the Future
- Special Edition: Drones, Colorado Flooding, and FEMA
- Amen Brother, Amen
- The Yarnell Hill Fire: A Different Viewpoint
- The Power of a Picture
- Friday Editorial: A Failure in Leadership
- Follow Up - The Yarnell Hill Fire
- FEMA Flood Maps Failed to Anticipate Hurricane Sandy Damage
Free and open software/data is being developed which could empower volunteer groups to help solve this problem,
- Public Safety Interface of the GIS Inventory
- Mission Manager - FREE Software for SAR
- Open Data Comes to Madison, Wisconsin
- Open Source Comes to the Criminal Justice System
- GeoMOOSE - The Open Source - Common Operating Picture Software
- Blood in the Streets - Sierra Club Wins in the California Supreme Court!
- The Value of Making Geospatial Data a Public Asset
- RtePM Evacuation Planning Software
- USGS Topo Data Goes Mobile
- And the Winner is...
- OpenStreetMap Drone Test
- The Year's Best Present: MetroGIS Wants Free and Open Access to Government Data
but unfortunately these types of response groups have grown haphazardly and without needed, ongoing, cross-community coordination, thereby minimizing value.
- U.S. Geological Survey to Crowd-Source the Nation
- OpenStreetMap Use Continues to Grow
- National Map Corps Now Implemented Nationwide
- Philippine Disaster Digital Mappers
- Typhoon Haiyan Geospatial Resources
Similarly, other important issues which have come forward include government use of location derived data, and
- Privacy and Geographic Data
- Montana Has Nation's First Cell Phone Tracking Law
- Who's on First? Another Ruling on Warrantless Cellphone Tracking
- NSA Scandal Could Hurt US Law Enforcement Capabilities
- Court Says: Probable-Cause Warrant Needed for GPS Tracking
- Tracking Seattle - No More
inadequate use of web-based communication technologies.
- Social Media Brief from FEMA Region V RISC
- Boston Marathon Bombings: First Thoughts
- San Francisco is Creating a Social Network for Disasters
- How to Post Emergency Information Online
- Stare Down: Social Media Versus Emergency Management
Since the nation can’t fix everything at once, we should start with a simple concept and build from there. That concept is - adopting a common response language of location - the U. S. National Grid.
- New York's Volunteer Firefighters Join the Discussion: U.S. National Grid
- USNG in the Florida Field Operations Guide
- A Geospatial Thought About the Response in Moore, Oklahoma
- Pushing a Rope Up a Hill...In the Rain
- Some Thoughts About ICS, USNG and SAR - From a Florida Firefighter
- U.S. National Grid is Now In the DHS Geospatial CONOPS
- U.S. National Grid Equals Preparedness
Comment: Let's go! We can do this!
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