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

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Island kids involved with the Big Island maybe application or anything to do with our Island. The second is, sorry I forgot my second question, sorry, I was reading off my notes. Jason – It’s okay, Jason Omick DLNR DOFAW, I do have an outreach section here with our division that is assisting with a lot of media stuff that is going on here, we have events, we have experience in all these different things. You can actually hike trails; you can build trail experiences, where you hike from one trail to another, you can see, you can virtual hike the trail. You can work with me or with Josh Atwood, is the gentleman that runs our education and outreach section for DOFAW, work with you in getting information into the app for your Island. Leomana – Shoots, right on thank you. I just realize my first important question was. How does the GPS tracking, I know you said, it can tell you where you are in the hunting map? But what about the tracking, does it track me as I go hunting in my whole area or who has access to that information? Jason – Well, like any app that you download on your phone, that information has to go somewhere. The only information I’m gathering is when you check-in or check-out at a hunter check station. So, that Challenge, I can’t see where your phone is going. You know when you’re using the app, it’s only when you do a Challenge. So you check-in a hunter check station, I can actually see your coordinates, not me but the developers, they can see your coordinates. When I download the hunter check station information, I can see the coordinates and the time you checked in. Because if you tried to check-in, I heard this comment earlier, “I can check-in when I’m at home and I can check-out when I get back home.” That is not going to work. The app knows that you’re not close to Kaohe. If you are going hunting at Kaohe. It will know you are not there. Once you get pretty close to Kaohe, you can check. Of course we want to know how long you are in the field and your success. We don’t want you to check-in and sit there and talk for 2 hours then go hunting, because, we are losing that time it took you 4 hours to get that Francolin instead of 2 hours. Really you should be checking in when you are ready to go hunt and check-out when you’re done. The phone works just like any iPhone or android off of a satellite, you don’t need cell phone connectivity to be where you’re at. As long as there is a satellite floating up on top you’re going to see where you are at. 24