Entire City Park Gets Mapped for GPS Tracking
We’ve blogged before about how GPS fleet tracking-style technology assists municipalities when emergency crews are dispatched or underground utilities need to be found from above.
But here’s another innovative use of GPS technology: All 41 miles of trails in Pittsburgh’s North Park have been mapped to GPS coordinates. Many of the trails also have been “blazed” – marked with identifying colors painted on trees – to allow hikers and search teams to find anyone who needs help or gets lost among the park’s 3,000 wooded acres.
“The whole park is mapped for GPS,” said Brian McBane of the county’s Geographic Information Systems office. “It’s a tremendous resource.”
A parks advocacy group also is pleased with the GPS mapping. And when environmentalists and city bureaucrats agree on something, you know it must be pretty cool.
You can find out for yourself how cool GPS fleet tracking without hiking over to our offices. Just click here to see how affordable, easily installed GPS tracking devices can show the locations of every vehicle in your fleet in real time. Even slow-moving mobile assets like bulldozers and steamrollers can get tracked, so you’ll always know where they are. Even in a park in Pittsburgh.
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