On Thursday 26 Jun 2008 12:30, Rony wrote: > > Is there an easier way of mapping by using high resolution maps > from googlemaps or any other provider and converting them into > drawings.
Possible except that the images are quite inaccurate. The sats photograph a swath of the earth's surface. The edges are distorted and corrected mathematically based on assumptions. Quite often these assumptions are wrong. And data from two sources will deviate in weird ways with skews and offsets. > All the street lamp tops as well as building tops can be > painted with special identification code patterns that can be the cost of paint would be more than the cost of handing out gpss to people. Not to mention pollution > observed from space and can be marked clearly in the satt. images. > This reduces the trouble of people having to manually walk > everywhere with a device in hand. A software that can convert the > optical pattern code into text, automatically adds relevant content > into the converted maps. Just my 2p. Extremely error prone. Read 1st para. -- Rgds JTD -- http://mm.glug-bom.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
