Making GPS Practical for Everyone from Beijing to Ulaanbaatar to Alma-aty to Moscow to Oslo to Berlin to Paris, Rome, and London to Reykjavik to Nuuk to Ottawa to Santa Fe to San Jose to Santiago to Antananarivo to Colombo to Thimphu to Singapore, Bangkok, and Vientiane to Taipei, Macau, Hongkong and more. ProximityCast is currently an acorn on its way to being a mighty oak serving the world and its inhabitants.

ProximityCast is a location technology service providing the means to find the location of a selected category based on the proximity to the user's entered location.

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BufferZone Check Pilot - Republic of South Korea
Army Flight Instructor - Contact, Tactics, NOE, Nighthawk, NVG, and Instruments
ICS Survey and Mapping Course Graduate
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Arkansas State University

Going from highschool to Army Flight School followed by a two year hitch in the Republic of South Korea gave David Robert(Tomahawk 21)a serious love for the art of navigation and foreign lands.
Those were the days before GPS when a pilot who couldn't navigate wasn't any good to anyone regardless of how smooth he/she was on the stick. Tomahawk 21 became a buffer zone pilot and then a buffer zone check pilot and was often chosen to be flight lead during tactical assault training. Tomahawk 21 learned the value of quickly and easily being able to find a specific location.
GPS opened the door to a whole new world of facinating possibilities. It kinda took the fun out of flying for those who loved the art of navigation. Now, any pilot who was navigationally incompetent could simply stick the numbers into the "box" and get to where he/she was needed. But, GPS combined with the internet and wireless technology offers a whole new world of possibilities. Tomahawk 21 is dedicated to exploiting these possibilities to make GPS technology useful for the common person.
The first exploitation of GPS came when Tomahawk 21 went to work for an air ambulance service. The dispatch center was located in a small room with a wall map. Whenever an emergency call came in, a dispatcher would use a printed database of small communities to determine the latitude and longitude of the scene. Then the dispatcher had to manually plot those coordinates on the wall map. Once the coordinates were plotted the dispatcher had to visually determine the closest base before knowing who to dispatch. Tomahawk 21 saw the need for a computer program that would quickly and easily do a ProximityCast for the closest base to the scene. This would eliminate the need to manually plot the coordinates and speed up dispatching the appropriate aircraft enhancing the ability to save lives.

Thus the first ProximityCasting application was born.

When the scene coordinates were entered into the program the scene along with the three closest air ambulance bases appeared on the computer screen. Course lines from the bases to the scene radiated out of each base location. The distance, heading, and approximate ETE was given for each base. Also they were color coded! The closest base was colored GREEN for go, the second closest base was colored YELLOW for caution - not the closest base, the farthest base was colored RED for stop - there are better choices!

Technology thresholds are rapidly being crossed making GPS more affordable and practical for the common man. ProximityCast will be marching forward as destiny permits opening up new possibilities with exciting ProximityCast applications.

If you are interested in being a part of ProximityCast send your information to the contact address below.

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