On 6/13/07, brian grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
my proposal for a recursive geospatial reference is this: a modified Hierarchical Triangular Mesh (HTM) - please bear with me on this - I need to understand if my description makes sense to this community. ultimately I'm looking for an application that can locate lat/log points into triangular areas designated as follows:
This is another topic altogether as well (wow, people are coming out of the woodwork - keep it up! :) There is a definite interest in defining some type of grid system for use in hierarchical addressing and search. C-Squares was developed originally for oceanic measurement: http://www.cmar.csiro.au/csquares/ Geotude is being developed for addressing: http://www.geotude.com/ And of course - there are always absurd patents to be looked at: "Geographic location referencing system and method" http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5839088.html - which was awarded to Go2 software - used for "Mobile Yellow Pages" (yippee) _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
