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Regional trails committee considers US National Grid emergency locator signs for greenways
Summary
A staff presentation introduced the US National Grid (USNG) emergency-locator system and free web tools for signage and QR-enabled coordinates; committee members discussed next steps but took no formal vote.
Aaron (staff member) told the NVCOG Trails Committee that he encountered a national effort to use the U.S. National Grid (USNG) as a simple, interoperable emergency-location standard for trails and parks.
He said the system ‘‘is basically a grid system that's laid over the entire U.S.,’’ and explained that the grid can provide coordinates down to 10-meter squares, which he described as sufficient for guiding emergency responders on trails.
The presentation noted the University of Minnesota’s 2010 work recommending USNG for outdoor emergency location, the SharedGeo (SharedGEO) contractor tools that generate sign templates,…
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