shrug-l: Numbering Hydrants

[Eric Songer]

I'll be honest. I find the whole "smart" identifier a monumental pain in
the butt and never worth the effort. When I drive around my home town, I
don't know what lat long to 8 decimal places, PLSS section, or National Map
Grid I am in. Why is this in the ID? Now you have to have an application,
or a spreadsheet to generate an ID.I don't see the utility (see what I did
there?)

  -Eric

On Wed, May 18, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Porter, Bill <bporter at spartanburgcounty.org
> wrote:

>    That is an impressive system and it’s well thought out.
>
>    It seems like a lot of effort to reduce two 9 digit Dec degree values
> to 15 places (the dashes need to be counted).
>
> In my humble application of Occam’s razor and the principle of scientific
> parsimony,  the simplest solution is best.  Why make  the coordinates
> occult, hiding under a conversion?
>
>    In the Americas, from the equator to the northernmost tip of Greenland,
> Lat is positive and Long negative, so drop the longitude negative sign
> unless this scheme is adopted  outside of the US.  Then it’s their problem.
>
> 19 charaters                          15 characters
>
> 30.434478|84.277222  vs  0XD-89E-JM8-EQ6
>
>
>
>   A unique ID for each hydrant would be only one field in the data base of
>  whatever essential info firefighters need:  Hydrant into  (GPM flow?  Type
> of hydrant? Wrench size? Adapter size?) .  They will need a street address
> and landmarks.   Since fire trucks can’t fly as the crow does,  any code
> has to be convertible to street routing.  All Counties build street data
> bases.
>
>
>
>   Scott’s initial parameters stated that the trucks can’t be guided by 911
> dispatch and firemen don’t want to carry and learn GPS.  Nor would the
> county spring for meter-level GPS units on each fire truck.   $250 Garmin
> WAAS-corrected units are more likely if any are considered.
>
> One elegant solution is to have  GPS/GIS elves at each fire station (one
> for each shift) that would have a tablet with WAAS GPS and mapping
> software.  This could save lives,  would build better street maps over time
> and provide employment for freshly minted GIS elves. It would also give GIS
> analysts a much needed macho-rep boost. It’s better to swagger into a bar
> with a fireman’s coat and tablet than just a tablet.
>
>
>
> Another option would be to stop fighting interminable, pointless and
> immoral foreign wars and use those $trillions to upgrade Emergency Services
> equipment across the US. (End of editorial portion)
>
>
>
> *From:* SHRUG-L [mailto:shrug-l-bounces at lists.dep.state.fl.us] *On Behalf
> Of *Rick Labs
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 17, 2016 2:56 PM
> *To:* Bassett, Seth; Scott Warner; shrug-l at lists.dep.state.fl.us
> *Subject:* Re: shrug-l: Numbering Hydrants
>
>
>
> Scott, Seth, others who may be interested,
>
> I worked up a demo spreadsheet that shows how you can label anything with
> a simple *12 character code* (for instance hydrants, or even
> mail/packages) and have that code encapsulate 6 decimal accuracy geo coding
> (about 1 meter accuracy).  The code is designed to be compact and easy to
> speak. Case is not important and the letters O, I, L, and Z are not used
> because of frequent confusion with numbers (0,1,2).
>
> The spreadsheet both encodes and decodes. Unambiguous, universal format
> works worldwide down to a meter.
>
> You can get the file named *encodelatlon.xls* from this directory:
> http://clbcm.com/shrug/
>
> There are no macros (or VBA code) in the spreadsheet but you will likely
> have to "allow editing" if you want to play around with it.
>
> Rick
>
>
>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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  -Eric-
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