Dennis Crowley wrote: > > hey all - a friend of mine in NYC forwarded me this. anyone heard > anything about it? > >> Start looking at all the light posts in the city, about 7-8 feet off >> the ground. Every single one has a barcode. >> >> Steve Bull clued me in to this on Wednesday night. He said a few weeks >> ago, he was walking along and ran into a few guys with a huge GPS unit >> and a 6-foot antenna. They were placing the bar codes and correlating >> them with their respective geocoords. He didn't know who they were or >> why there were doing it. >> >> Does anyone know what this is about?
sounds simple. I suspect each light fixture is equipped with an active lamp test device that sends it's serial number (the number in the barcode) when the bulb needs to be changed. having a database of all the light fixtures allows the repair crews to directly go to the spot where bulbs have to be changed, instead of randomly going around looking for dead bulbs :D _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
