I second that.
There are always new "solves-it-all" systems popping up claiming to be
revolutionary, or at least much better than anything that currently exist.
Another example is this article from today's Slashdot newsletter:
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No France writes "A company known as [1]skyhook wireless has announced
the [2]commercial availability of its Wi-Fi Positioning System, or WPS.
The company has compiled a database of every wireless access point it can
find in a given city. When a mobile user running th Skyhook client is in
a recorded area, their position is calculated by selecting the
surrounding signals and comparing them to the reference database.
Currently there are 25 US cities mapped, including New York City, Boston,
Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Apparently this device is
accurate to within 20-40 meters, though one has to wonder how well it
deals with people moving their wireless access points."
Discuss this story at:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=05/06/21/2322250
Links:
1. http://www.skyhookwireless.com/
2.
http://news.com.com/Wi-Fi+used+for+location+services/2100-7351_3-5754288.html?tag=nl
Best regards / Med venlig hilsen
Lars V. Nielsen
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Clifford J Mugnier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: MI-L Wow! Can it be this simple?
This is just another cockamamie scheme to come up with a "patented" system
similar to the Military Grid Reference System or MGRS like what the
"National Grid" is supposed to do. Very little of the world is on WGS84,
and if the U.S. military hasn't got it done yet; these turkeys won't be
doing it before them. However, they'd love to license their idea to you for
a fee ...
Remember P.T. Barnum, "There's a sucker born every minute."
No. it is not that simple.
Clifford J. Mugnier
Chief of Geodesy
CENTER FOR GEOINFORMATICS
Department of Civil Engineering
LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Academic Office Voice and Facsimile: (225) 578-8536
Research Office Voice and Facsimile: (225) 578-4474
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http://www.ASPRS.org/resources/GRIDS
http://www.cee.lsu.edu/facultyStaff/mugnier/index.html
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Can 8.0 handle this? Should it?
MidNight Mapper
Aka neil
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
http://www.nacgeo.com/nacsite/
The Natural Area Coding SystemTM is a new system to standardize and
integrate geodetic datums, geographic coordinates, geographic area codes,
map grids, addresses and postal codes in the world. The system employs
revolutionary approaches:
It has unified the concepts of geodetic points, line sections, areas, and
three-dimensional regions.
It employs the 30 most popular characters in the world instead of ten
digits
and makes full use of these characters to produce the most efficient
representations;
It is defined only on the datum of WGS-84 to avoid any variations;
It creates one standard representation for all these geographic units.
These approaches make the Natural Area Coding SystemTM superior over
traditional systems.
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