Hi everyone, I think we've long-since strayed from the topic of conversation into critique of what3words. That's not really the topic of this conversation let alone the topic of this list, so could we maybe let this thread die?
-Ian On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 9:19 AM, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > On 30/11/15 13:43, Marc Gemis wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Colin Smale <colin.sm...@xs4all.nl> > wrote: > >> > In my example the party that needs to do the translation from w3w to > lat/lon > >> > would be Amazon, and they will probably be paying w3w for a licence > to do > >> > that. > > Wouldn't it be more likely that Amazon would invent their own system > > where customers get a mat with some sensors or build-in GPS tracker > > (so I can move and take the mat with me) that can be used by the drone > > ? Why would they rely on a (broken) third-party solution ? > > And of cause why rely on some optical barcode marking when a wireless > based tag would be better. May need to change the battery every few > years, but it only need to be in receive mode until a drone is in range > ... with a button to 'sync' location with base ... > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk > Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
_______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
