At mapa.co.il they would have to pay a small registration fee to use the full features :)...
Just to make it clear: I think all this terrorist stuff is bogus. Alon On 10/25/07, Amos Shapira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 26/10/2007, Geoffrey S. Mendelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 02:43:41PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > > > Unless you have more info about this than the average person in the > street I > > > assume we are both speculating on how they do this but as far as I'm > aware: > > > > Actually I do. Growing up in the U.S. in the 1960's made one either > > blissfully ignorant of this, or very much upon the things. I even > > launched my own rockets, but the most dangerous payload was a > > walkie-talkie stripped of it's case and having the transmit button > > jammed so we could locate it. It went all of about 10 feet. :-) > > Nice. Bdale Garbi (former Debian leader and HP OpenSource CTO or somesuch) > talked about his rocket-related and hobist satellite exploits on both > occasions that I met him. > > But I was referring to the way the rocket launchers organize, not the > rockets. > > > > 1. Those rockets are far too inaccurate to aim - two rockets fired from > the > > > same spot, direction, angle etc. (even ignoring atmospheric differences) > > > will land at pretty wide circle of target. > > > > How wide? They are not cruise missles and can't be aimed to hit an office > > second from the left on the second floor of a 10 story building, but > > if you fire enough of them, you can aim them within a block or two. > > Do you know this for sure or are you just estimating? > > > Don't forget that while the people in Gaza have things that are home made, > > they are far better than the fireworks rocket that was used in the news > > article. Hizbollah has Iranian made rockets which are a lot more > consistent. > > > > > 2. This still doesn't say how the Israeli users missing on a convenient > > > service prevents the terrorists on the other side of the fence from > finding > > > out the location by simply opening up a map, as they already say that > they > > > do in the news item that you brought. > > > > Because combining things makes them simpler. You may be able to combine > > them sitting at your desk, but if you are in a field knowng that the IDF > > is already on their way, coordinating a strike with cell phones, with a > > spotter and someone at the "control center" on a computer, is a lot > > easier if they have one database to search instead of 2 or 3. > > > > > > > I'm still not with you about why not having street names on Google Maps > > > (while being able to get them on mapa.co.il, ynet maps, GPS software > etc) > > > will prevent or even hinder their attacks, while at the same time people > who > > > live in Israel miss out on the greatest mapping tool I've seen. > > > > See above. > > > > Try it some time. Call a friend on your cell phone and as your are driving > > or riding on a bus, call out street names as you pass them. See how long > it > > takes to use one database, two, three or four. > > Then go to mapa.co.il or ynet maps(?) or even MS's maps and get that in one > place, so what's the excuse now? > > --Amos > > ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
