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Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Map for search and rescue operations
Tolga: Search and rescue personel have categories like 7 year old child etc. These categories define typical behaviour of the victim. For example, if it is a 7 year old child, it will not stay where it is and move at a certain speed.
It would be helpful to have a tool that
It would be helpful to have a tool that
- Works without internet connection
- Draws map
- Lets the user input
- victim category
- victim location
- time passed or time the intelligence was obtained (time passed = current - obtained)
- Draws estimated location circle with radius according to category and time passed
Research:
- PDF: Decision support software for search & rescue operations
- Google maps API might be used offline. It is required to be run with internet connection for the first time. I could use OSMDroid as map container.
- Google maps static API provides maps as images. We could create this images at base where there is internet location. When on the mission we could draw and update circles on these images.
- OpenStreetMap: osmdroid
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