>From Jed: > My daughter who lives in Boston sent me this link to a local bus company > that shows where its buses are in real time, on the map: > > http://masco.transloc.com/ > > This is the kind of thing that could have been done years ago but no one > thought to do it. In retrospect it is an obvious application of internet and > GPS technology: easy and cheap to implement and useful to the customers. I > expect the bus company has been tracking its drivers for a long time, > although I was surprised to find the other day that a local FedEx truck was > not equipped with a GPS map. > > Many technical problems can be solved more easily than people realize. Often > the hardest part is to convince people to try something new. > > - Jed
As a DOT employee for the state of Wisconsin I found this link informative. Thanks Jed. I passed it on. (It was fun to watch, too!) Regards Steven Vincent Johnson www.OrionWorks.com www.zazzle.com/orionworks
