Maureen wrote:
> 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
Can you send us a sample of the data that you receive from the provider
with the LAT/Lon data in it? I assume it is some sort of sentence that
has some sort of ID like the EIN, phone # or other ID, Lat/Lon and
possibly some RF environmental data, would like to see a sample.
Chuck Hast
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