
CHICAGO, UNITED STATES - A suggestion box submission came in from a Lifeboat crew member questioning how you define the location of a rescue. On land a search may be defined at the point of abandoned car, a landmark, mountain top or starting car park. A sea search is a moving entity, it can move during the search with currents, tides and winds.
It would be useful to know the area of that search, overlay multiple searches, and the centre of the plot.
A search at sea, like on an open piece of land, might be over a large area rather than around a single point. So how do we plot that search… A square? A circle? A set of lines? A custom drawn area?
-Robin.
Note: We will soon support the import of GPS tracklogs from an activity too.