Live data from Hacker News

Israeli soldiers who relied on Waze blundered into a deadly firefight

washingtonpost.com

21–24 of 24 posts

Re: Israeli soldiers who relied on Waze blundered into a deadly firefight

#21
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think these are average refugees. These camps have probably existed for decades and, as the article states, the people inside are armed to the teeth. The whole situation is always just on the brink of devolving into chaos.

"Armed to the teeth" with rocks

Firearms too.

"While the search operation was underway, a firefight broke out with armed Palestinians in the camp."

Re: Israeli soldiers who relied on Waze blundered into a deadly firefight

#22
Note that the event ended rather "peacefully". They mention Hannibal protocol was initiated - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hannibal_Directive. It can end up rather horribly bad to the local population as it happened in 2014 where large parts of a city got distroyed and scores were killed because IDF wanted to cut all the possible escape routes of kidnappers with the hostage.

Re: Israeli soldiers who relied on Waze blundered into a deadly firefight

#24
post #6
post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or just maybe, militar personnel ough to rely on their government's reconn/intel reports instead of using customer grade apps that were never designed for wartime usage.

Wait, are there military "Waze" deployments? That'd probably be pretty useful, yes? In addition to the routing information, a military could have an "enterprise" Waze that contained a bunch of intel marked on a map based on reports from the field.

There are military GIS systems, probably not Waze :)
Post reply on HN