Indy911calls.com

[K9GTJ]

Something from the Indy Star - http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/99999999/LOCAL0802/70416062

Looks weak...

 

[FD_1226]

it's actually pretty good. I scan MECA and will check the map and the runs will show. Not always and not always right but it's pretty interesting. Would be interesting to find out how it works.

 

[aajames]

Marion County has a dial-in system that we (indystar.com) can literally dial into (with a modem)... its a very old system and is far from 100%. We do get at least 90% of the calls mapped within 60 seconds of it being processed.

Here is how its done in a basic summary: We dial into the system with a modem, we log the data in a text file, which is then processed by a php script and sent into a database. When users visit indy911calls.com they retrieve the 30 most recent emergency calls in the database. We process the address and figure out the longitude and latitude and map it with a Yahoo mapping API. (hope that wasnt too technical).

Unfortunately, because its an old system that we dial into, the connection can become unstable and the data gets a bit 'jarbled'... after a while the scripts will recognize this and automatically kill the connection and re-establish it (which usually fixes the problems). But that does mean we have some downtime where the data is missing...

it's actually pretty good. I scan MECA and will check the map and the runs will show. Not always and not always right but it's pretty interesting. Would be interesting to find out how it works.

 

[K9GTJ]

Marion County has a dial-in system that we (indystar.com) can literally dial into (with a modem)... its a very old system and is far from 100%. We do get at least 90% of the calls mapped within 60 seconds of it being processed.

Here is how its done in a basic summary: We dial into the system with a modem, we log the data in a text file, which is then processed by a php script and sent into a database. When users visit indy911calls.com they retrieve the 30 most recent emergency calls in the database. We process the address and figure out the longitude and latitude and map it with a Yahoo mapping API. (hope that wasnt too technical).

Unfortunately, because its an old system that we dial into, the connection can become unstable and the data gets a bit 'jarbled'... after a while the scripts will recognize this and automatically kill the connection and re-establish it (which usually fixes the problems). But that does mean we have some downtime where the data is missing...

Thank you for the explanation. As you can see, we are very interested in such stuff. Feel free to hang about.

 

[Viper43]

I just found this, thats pretty neat. Now if the Star would get rid of that loggin junk...... if I wanted the Star to harrass me more than they already do I'd log in, but when they refuse to take you off their call list and 2 years later your still getting called once or twice a month it gets really aggravating....

V