by Darrell O'Donnell | Nov 8, 2013 | Situational Awareness
In Part 1 of this series about Incident Management System Software, the concept of Levels of Depth was introduced. The idea is that when you don’t need to go deep, the software should be easy to approach and not force complexity on you. If you need more detail then... by Darrell O'Donnell | Nov 1, 2013 | Situational Awareness
One of the best tools that an organization can have in-house is an Incident Management System (IMS) solution to help keep track of the various things that happen on a day-to-day and crisis basis. Any organization that has adopted the Incident Command System (ICS)... by Darrell O'Donnell | Oct 29, 2013 | Information Exchange, Situational Awareness
I have been writing a bunch of articles for my own use lately. A large number of them relate to Incident Management, a domain that I have been in since about 1997. Creating software for incident management has become second nature to me. I’ve done them for... by Darrell O'Donnell | Oct 8, 2013 | Situational Awareness
We have been pinged a lot lately about GIS applications — particularly at integrating GIS-based technologies (e.g. ArcGIS Server) into an application. The strange thing is that the requests have all been for “GIS Developers” to the exclusion of... by Darrell O'Donnell | Jun 1, 2013 | Rants, Raves & Rambles, Situational Awareness
I’ve been involved in establishing Common Operating Pictures (COPs) for about 15 years or more. The only definitive thing that I can tell you is that they don’t exist once you involve multiple parties (services, branches, agencies, etc.). Many attempts at...
