Civil Air Patrol and OpenMap

Don,

I'm still hoping to bootstrap Civil Air Patrol PA Group 2 Squadron 401
use of OpenMap. CAP has some standard mapping solutions in use (I've
met one person using a GIS), but I don't know if the commercial
products can be tailored to CAP missions the way OpenMap can.

I have mocked up some GUIs. I'm chasing down USGS CDROM topomap
sources. CAP uses a grid system, 15'x15' is a grid and 7.5'x7.5' is a
quarter grid. The grids are numbered according to Sectional VFR Air
Chart boundaries, e.g., the Williamsport PA airport (IPT) is in New
York [Sectional] Grid 321, then we have quarter grids 321[ABCD].

When we get missions we are usually told to search by grid number,
e.g., NY [Sectional] Grids 321[AB] and 418[AB], as we did in last
Saturday's SAR/EX.

I would have OpenMap show CAP grid(s), terrain, wind direction, origin
and destination, flight plan route, grid entry/exit points, restricted
and prohibited areas, military training routes, temporary flight
restrictions, and locations of interest (ground teams, search
targets). The user would draw or specify some of these, others would
come from CDROMs. OpenMap could get some information from DUATS
(online flight planning) and output progress reports and flight plans.
OpenMap might able to help an Incident Commander work with the USAF
Liaison Officer.

Just some thoughts.

Geoffrey

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Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 11:15:12 -0500
Subject: Re: satellite tracks
Cc: Huff Bill K Cont AFIWC/RMM-SCI <Bill.Huff@LACKLAND.AF.MIL>
To: Pearson John T Jr GG-13 453 EWS/EWR <John.Pearson@LACKLAND.AF.MIL>,
        openmap-users@bbn.com
from: Don Dietrick <dietrick@bbn.com>
Yes, please, everyone!
We put out a call for links a little while ago - Steve McDonald 
suggested that we put up a link page on openmap.bbn.com, and we'd like 
to put it up when we make the next release in 2-3  weeks.  We do have 
several additions to the page, but the more, the better.
But don't think of it as simply a links page.  Like John points out, 
please let us know what you are doing with OpenMap, with a simple 
description with or without a link.  It doesn't matter if you see 
someone else on the page doing the same thing (that would be a good 
thing, right?).  We would like to have Company/Organization names for 
these descriptions.   If you, your Company or Organization wants to 
provide a POC that someone can contact for more information, or to start 
a collaboration, that too would be great.   Of course, we realize that 
there may be security and business model development concerns, where you 
may not want to provide too much detail.  As much information as you can 
provide would be appreciated.
There are a lot of people doing many different things with OpenMap.  
There are also a lot of people trying to decide if OpenMap can help 
them.  Having more insight to how the OpenMap is used will do a couple 
of things:  It can help others have a greater understanding of what they 
can do with the toolkit, and just as importantly, it can also help 
developers design new features and APIs with a wider range of uses in 
mind, i.e., classes that can be used in other ways than the author 
originally needed.
Anyway, please send in your info to openmap@bbn.com, and we'll put it on 
the page.
Thanks,
Don
On Tuesday, February 12, 2002, at 10:13 AM, Pearson John T Jr GG-13 453 
EWS/EWR wrote:
> I think it would be really awesome if we could find out what people have
> done with Openmap, and what we the general Openmap user community could
> have, as opposed to re-inventing the wheel.
>
> Bill, Care to describe the non-classified aspects of what we've done?
>
> Warmest Regards
>
> JP
>
> John T. Pearson, Jr  GG-13, DAF
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: jim schmidt [mailto:j-m.schmidt@erols.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2002 8:55 AM
> To: openmap-users@bbn.com
> Subject: satellite tracks
>
> Has anyone recommendations for or an example of
> mapping satellite tracks  with associated nadir
> (subsatellite point) field-of-view boundary using OpenMap?
>
> thanks.
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>
> jim schmidt
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