2021-07-20 Game Management Advisory Commission Minutes (2)

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all their check-ins and everything they’ve harvest and where they going. They can see their successful areas. This is only for their eyes only, but the app is kind of social too. If I’m on Mauna Kea and your guys are hiking on Mauna Loa we could take pictures and share it. If you shoot a goat, you can take a picture and send it to me, stuff like that. Eventually we will have trail check-in and check-outs so in case people get lost whatever, we have a little safety measure to look back on and see if they checked out. So it’s kind of a social app, but more so it’s a way for us to collect hunter/harvest data. And there’s a whole - another layer of the whole trail system, basically, its Na Ala Hele in your pocket. All the trial systems there, you can click on each one and you can see where there is a giant gulley and you just want to stop there, you can kind of watch your app and know that the mountain cliff is right there, so don’t go down there. I don’t have a lot of Geo fencing and stuff like that, meaning if you’re approaching a giant cliff your phone will beep at you or say hey, something like telling you your about to fall off a cliff. But maybe one day we will be able to add some of those things in there. But eventually this app will, I’m trying to get state parks to join also, there information is in there too but their trails are not. And other divisions that we have to add their information in here too but right now it’s mainly molded for DOFAW and the department lands and having that way to check-in and check-out. I would just say, download the app and take a look and spin around. You have to register yourself in there to check-in, if you don’t check-out by a certain time in the evening, it will remind you to check out. So make sure you fulfill your duties of checking in and checking out. Right now I’m kind of just messing with how the hunter/ harvest data comes through. Everything is on Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) right now, so I’m writing a code to push that into Hawaii Time. And situate the information that we are getting so I can analyze it a little easier. But yeah it’s kind of just an outdoor recreational app. And the main thing I’m using it for is the hunter check-in and check-out information. Abraham - Thanks Jason. I used the app since it started, since I found out actually st July 1 and in the beginning like Jason said with the paper check in a lot of the hunters don’t want to check in cause then they going find out where you hunting and whatever, that’s the story. So, with this new app you can check-in right before you leave your house to guarantee you get check-in because some places, and Jason, I’ve been couple places already, that it works offline, but on the check- in part it doesn’t work offline. I got to find service and check-in again, and then 21