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http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/internet/09/08/katrina.data.ap/index.html
A pretty good example of how confused it gets even with the best of
intentions. Note:
1. Different formats. Can't cut and paste.
2. Different business rules. Can't search.
The second one is the tough nut to crack. As I said earlier, your
cities are mapped and your utilities databases have most of the
necessary information. See item b.
a) Use Google Earth. That would be ok but the actual address information
is highly inaccurate. Mashups are legally dicey because there is no
standard for quality. This is infant technology chasing a mission
critical business. I'm glad for it but waiting for the inevitable
lawsuits.
b) Use the public safety databases. Federal and State privacy laws
interfere but it is the best data out there. This is an industry
to customer tangle waiting to happen.
Public open system standards for resources (human, asset management,
dispatch-to-dispatch), are the right answer. Opt-in registration
policies are next (sign up to let your utilities databases release
information or enter them yourselves). Make sure that information
can't be sold or traded (Pass laws.). Find out if your local gun
store owners (Wal-Mart, JCs Gun and Tackle, etc.) have means to
secure their merchandise before they bug out. (Pass laws.). Make sure that
any
registered hospital, daycare, nursing home, etc., with hard-to-move
patients have the resources and the inspectable plan. Don't take
their word for it; require it. (Pass laws.)
len
-----Original Message-----
From: jim.fuller@.ruminate.co.uk [mailto:jim.fuller@.ruminate.co.uk]
technical solutions is part of the 'execution'...it shouldnt 'lead'...as in
W. recent blitz on touting technology as some sort of solution to global
warming.
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