Last week, the Clay County Emergency Operations Center held a training on the US National Grid.  This is a a common geographic framework for response.  Unlike confusion that can be brought about by the use of Latitude and Longitude measurements, a USNG coordinate can only point to one specific location.

Clay County is in the process of rolling this out to all of their departments –police, fire, emergency management.  As they roll this out, ClayARES will also need to be aware and ready to use the USNG.

We will cover the USNG in upcoming ClayARES training sessions.

For a general overview and more information, you can go to http://usngcenter.org