Cursor on Target use for describing EMS Points of Interest

["Hans Jespersen" <Hans.Jespersen@SolaceSystems.com>]

The article entitled "Wonderful World of Data" describes the use of USAF Cursor-on-Target (CoT) by the Vancouver, WA / Clark County EMS District, to represent the position of ambulances. I know that Kansas City, MO is doing something similar for Fire and Police as well and I can put anyone interested to learn more in touch with Troy Campbell who is their resident CoT expert. The CoT event codes have been extended to describe EMS objects like Fire Truck, and Police Cruiser (rather than just the original military objects).

 

There is a public domain KML/CoT gateway which makes it quite easy to stand up a Google Earth or other KML capably displays (such as Falconview which is another popular public domain visualization tool).

 

-hans

 

The article is attache but for reference the link to the article is: http://www.crca911.org/documents/2009/EMS%20Newsletter%20Vol%203%20Issue%203.pdf

EMS%20Newsletter%20Vol%203%20Issue%203.pdf