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Thursday, September 17. 2009

Local Man Raises Funds for GPS for Fire Engines

A Slidell (Louisiana) resident held a wine tasting event and a raffle to fund the purchase of Garmin GPS devices for the local fire department. The local Best Buy provided a discount to make the money go further and even installed the devices in the fire trucks.

- Tammany News

Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Satellite Navigation at 07:32 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0) | Bookmark and Share

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Well I hope no one does that for my town as my street is not on the GPS data sets (yet?) while it is in the E-911 GIS system that the county spent a fortune on.
#1 Ian Turton on 2009-09-17 12:08 (Reply)
Just curious - Did you (or your County - Centre is it?) submit the needed update to the two big data players NAVTEQ and Tele Atlas?

I rarely get a positive response when I ask that question of non-geo folks. I'm hoping geo folks will have a higher "yes" response.
#1.1 Adena Schutzberg (Link) on 2009-09-17 12:32 (Reply)
One or other of them is responsible for mapping the county under contract from Center County as a result my street appears on Bing and not Google. I would guess that might prevent the county giving the data to the other one?

As to when it will appear on a GPS unit I'm not holding my breath.
#2 Ian Turton on 2009-09-17 13:37 (Reply)

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