[LINK] No cash for phone alert system

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

> >> Something specific to your area, and will grab your attention. CFA  
> >> siren and police megaphone cruising (and) SMS specific to your area
> >> (eg quarter-cell?) registered for or you're in could save many lives 
> >>     
>
> Stephen... it's interesting noting the scope-creep through this thread.
> The original news article ran with the line that alerts are easy and
> cheap, and it's only incompetent bureaucrats and cynical telcos that
> stand in the way.


dont care what any Link thread starts with, as long as smartish people
on Link arrive as some sort of best-consensus (more-or-less) re issues

> I would say city slicker folly! - More like city slicker lack of
> imagination; people who are never out of touch can't imagine that
> country people frequently are. RC >Lea, 'Yes! The fires scared us!'


So thinking cap on Richard, what can you add to this importaqnt thread?

I think we *first sort out accurate-data-collection* then dissemination.

Ideally, half a dozen light helicopters, with automatic capture & send
infra-red cameras, and fire-spotters with an ABC open-mic, all relaying
fire-front speeds and directions through smoke obstruction, mashed with
google maps or whereis and the spotter's Melways on his lap for the ABC
radio-warnings and to text-update his quarter-cell sms-all phone number. 


Cheers Richard
Stephen Loosley
Victoria Australia