Rural Public Safety Officers Using GPS to Navigate
NewsOK offers a short article about the use of GPS devices for public safety in rural Oklahoma. The bottom line:
Most calls into a sheriff’s office rely on rural routes, dirt roads, barns, bridges or even mail boxes as landmarks for directions, [executive director of the Oklahoma Sheriffs’ Association Ken] McNair said. Deputies often have a grid map of the county, but with a GPS device a deputy can take the guesswork out of the equation.
I’m impressed the core data delivered with the devices or local data posted in them is good enough to support officers. The article notes the fee to update devices, so my thought was data is not from local sources.
by Adena Schutzberg on 02/16 at 06:00 AM |
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