Hi,
A colleague suggested this purpose:
The barcodes are a ConEd ID system that they installed after a woman was
electrocuted a couple of years ago. The database has info on when the
lines were last checked for stray voltage, etc.
cheers,
Greg
Drew from Zhrodague 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?
Wow, I wanted to do something like that a while ago (ala
http://semacode.org) here in Pittsburgh, but I couldn't get vinyl
adhesive barcodes made cheaply. We were just gonna mail 'em out, and let
people tag things.
Here in PA, telephone poles have unique numbers on them. I haven't
found a dataset from the state which lists their locations and UINs yet,
but I haven't looked in a long time.
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Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN)
Columbia University
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