Well, yes, but much of the border is sparsely populated -- most of the population lives in large cities, many of which aren't located on the border. I imagine the range of the devices they're planning on installing is comparable to cell phones rather than hundreds of kilometres.
--G Sent from my iPad On 2011-08-21, at 20:32, Richard Weait <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:17 PM, Gordon Dewis <[email protected]> wrote: >> The geocaching community has been watching this for a while. I don't >> understand why this has gotten as far as it has given that the GPS system is >> owned by the United States and is used for military and law enforcement >> applications domestically. You would think that the government would just >> say no to this. This shouldn't have a huge impact in Canada, except perhaps >> near the border. > > The majority of the population in Canada is "near the border" for some > value of "near". ;-) Wikipedia says 80% within 150km of the border. _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
