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> Bandwidth is really important. GIS is a big part of operations, so that's a lot of high-resolution map tiles flying through the air, and when it takes time to
by leni536 8y ago
> Bandwidth is really important. GIS is a big part of operations, so that's a lot of high-resolution map tiles flying through the air, and when it takes time to load or print a map, it can really jam up operations. Seconds count.
Is there a reason that map tiles have to be accessed real time over the Internet and can't be update for eg. daily and kept on a local hard drive? Is it too large? For a fire department it could be only the area that they operate in.
- thaumaturgy 8y agoMostly technical effort. I'm not sure what fire/OES uses for GIS. The system we use does have a locally-hosted option, but that requires someone knowing how to update it and what to do if the server stops behaving. > For a fire department it could be only the area that they operate in. Not really. Mutual aid happens often enough that that's not really a bet you want to make. Especially in the case of CalOES resources, which are sent from disaster to disaster all over the state.
- leni536 8y ago> Not really. Mutual aid happens often enough that that's not really a bet you want to make. Well in that case it could fall back to Internet access, I guess. Just keep the map of the local area as cache.