Great opportunity for Open Source mashers
My last post regarding making progress on integrated E911 … putting cell phone locations on maps for emergency response has led to a thought for the day. The world is full of highly talented programmers, Always endeavoring to “show off” their “stuff”. There are great tools available, such as Google earth that are free, or very cheap to use.
When a community decides to implement E911 response they need two main things, A feed from the phone provider giving the coordinates (lat/long, UTM, etc.) of the calling phones and a map to display the location on.
A thought for those working on the next tweak to some arcane command in Linux, yet another free content management system or still one more plug in for Firefox … what about a simple interface to put the phone location data into a KML file and a network interface to Google Earth?
Seems like all the info needed is readily available on line and putting just one location on G-E can even be done manually with a click of the mouse.
Sounds like an interesting project to me.