On 25-Jun-08, at 1:39 PM, Pradeepto Bhattacharya wrote: > 1) Suppose you are walking on a particular street - 2 way > street even - you encounter a few shops - say a big Sweet and Snacks / > Hotel / School / anything, on the same street. Now how do you put > those on the maps while GPS tracking and then tracing the map on the > computer?
paper and pen > > I mean, the to reach the shop, you have to walk good 5 > meters or such - at times - depending on width of foot path or such. > Now those paths are not roads really, and they can vary from place to > place. How to tackle such offsets ? measure it > > 2) Suppose you have tracked certain part of your town or > your route from your home to airport near your city. Then you fly to > another city and then restart the GPS device. At that point the device > generally has to re-initiate itself to capture/detect the satellites ( > which it has to do anyway incase you turn off and then switch on a gps > device - atleast in some devices that I have seen ). Anyway after it > has done that, it calculates the Longitude and Latitude and hence the > current position. What happens in this case is, the GPS device draws a > straight line from City A to City B. Is there a way to avoid that / > tackle that ? no way to avoid it - delete the line -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Associate, NRC-FOSS [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://nrcfosshelpline.in/code/ -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
