> On 08/11/10 20:49, Peter Ross wrote: > >> Their idea is that a museum (say) would buy these locata things and >> place them throughout their building then people could wander around >> with their smart phone and get information relevant to where they are, >> or alternatively firefighters could place the beacons around a burning >> building and then be able to record where every firefighter is in >> real-time with meter level accuracy. > > Or put them in road tunnels like Sydney's M5, so that visitors like me > using OSM get told about the correct exit inside the tunnel instead of > being told we've missed the turn when we eventually exit. > > John
As far as my reading got, this could work with a smart phone, as the additional signals were broadcast on 2.4GHz, but not on a consumer GPS. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
