What are you thinkinug of triangulating on? There was a company using television signals and experimentally they were getting good results.
It would be cool to have a device that you could site mountains or other features and do your triangulation the way we do with a map and compass :-) On 9/20/07, Jeremy Irish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In some ways I wish the US would create some controversy so it could > re-invigorate Galileo. The EU seems to be increasingly disinterested in a > competing system and removing the SA feature from satellites just makes > Galileo less interesting. At least there's the Russian GLONASS system being > retooled and China's Compass system (which is still undefined). > > I personally think that there should be a Local Positioning System technology > out there that uses triangulation. Although WiFi and Cell Tower positioning > are novel there's no way I see either idea being able to help me find a > geocache or any other specific point. There is interesting research in indoor > navigation but nothing solid has presented itself that I know of yet. Please > prove me wrong! > > Jeremy > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tyler Bell > Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 5:10 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Geowanking] So do we entirely believe this? > > Here's a bit of topical background to the issue from El Reg for interested, > uh, 'wankers.... > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/18/drop_sa_say_satnav_lovers/ > > - - TB > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > -- Now offering training and consulting in maximizing corporate efficiency using Web 2.0 tools and techniques. Rich Gibson Chief Scientist (and bottle washer), Locative Technologies http://mappinghacks.com http://geocoder.us http://testingrange.com AIM period3equals _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
