Agencies and teams rarely operate in isolation — the work requires cooperation between multiple groups, and situational awareness has to extend beyond any single team’s map. Most people know the QR code pathway: sharing an individual map, or spinning up a Mutual Aid Incident for a single event. That works well for one-off situations. But […]
Update November 18: We have had an amazing response with a slew of incredible people applying for this position! It’s going to be a really difficult decision to choose only one. At this time, we need to stop accepting new applications. Thank you all for your interest and support! We’re hiring for help with team […]
How one county uses CalTopo Teams to design a detailed project map. The threat of wildfires looms large in Northern California, where the scars of past incidents like the North Bay Fire Siege in 2017 and the Paradise Fire in 2018 serve as stark reminders of the potential for sudden and deadly firestorms. However Marin […]
Today we’re taking a break from our usual blog fare to update you on a little-known tax change with a big impact on small software companies such as CalTopo. The short version of this story is that businesses have always been able to treat their payroll as a direct expense – if you made $100k […]
CalTopo Teams Was Used When a Tornado Ripped Through a Small Town in Oklahoma In less than 12 hours, the destruction of the EF-4 tornado was mapped out on CalTopo, allowing the Director of Emergency Operations to assess the situation. At 5am on Saturday, November 5, 2022, Cody McDaniels, Director of Emergency Operations for McCurtain […]
With the recent release of Account Folders, we felt this was a good opportunity to emphasize another aspect of map organization: map sharing, or to put it another way, “who can see my map?” CalTopo map sharing supports four levels of visibility: Public, URL, Secret, and Private. After looking at these, we’ll also cover shareable […]
This is an update to how we run the sites and how you can access your data, but no action is required by you as a user. We’ve always run two sites in parallel: CalTopo, for on recreational use cases, and SARTopo, which focuses on professional uses cases, such as search and rescue, through additional […]
First Responders: Display and monitor a subject’s location in your map with SMS Update: This feature can only be created on the web version of the program at this time. You can not yet send the text from your mobile device. Have you ever been talking to a lost person on the phone, but […]
