Great E911 Tutorial From TECHtionary

Tom Cross, TMCnet's Security and Emerging Technologies Columnist, sent me a link to a great Flash tutorial he created for his TECHtionary site, on the topic of E911. Try it out by clicking on the following link:

http://www.techtionaryna.com/techtip/wednesday1.swf

The tutorial is not in-depth, but it gives you a good idea what goes on when you make a 911 call. The fun part of the tutorial is that it shows a caller dialing 911 and the system identifying the caller's location by means of the 14- or 16-character ALI (Automatic Location Indentifier) string. As E911 zeroes in on the location, the Flash animation zooms in on a map and a 3D rendering of the caller's neighborhood and building. Finally a cop car shows up at the door. Help has arrived!

AB -- 8/10/05

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August 10, 2005 4:02 PM |