One almost as good as the system I built for you.
- Queensland Fire and Rescue Service
- New South Wales Rural Fire Service
- Australian Capital Territory Emergency Services Authority
- Victorian Country Fire Authority
- Tasmanian Fire Authority
- South Australia Country Fire Service
- West Australia Department of Fire & Emergency Services
- Sentinel Hotspots: Satellite thermal imaging from daily passes by MODIS
You will note that the Northern Territory is absent from this list. There are reasons.
This is very good. I seem to recall a conversation we had many months ago where we agreed a system like this could be built by one person in a couple of weeks rather than tasking an entire government department with building an in-house system useful only to government employees.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you've done this, despite my concerns I spoke of on Facebook. It well demonstrates the overarching points I've been going over for years:
Everyone benefits _most_ when *everyone* benefits.
Free, open, and public is the best way of doing things. Far better than tendered, closed, 'secure' methods. Governments needs to adopt these new approaches and without nimble, ethical management approaches to problem-solving involved in building these sorts of information systems entire government departments DESERVE to be cut to the bone until they ARE willing to solve problems using the best tools known (rather than constantly reinventing the wheel).
So, thank you for this! Well done! :) Hopefully it will garner some decent publicity, although you may find that like my new ideas, erecting the billboard is one thing, getting people to look at it is quite another. :(
nice work! :)
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