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[Kate Arthur]

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From: Jonathan Soh <quebeck5 at yahoo.com>
To: melbwireless at melbwireless.dyndns.org
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Date: Monday, September 24, 2001 3:07 AM
Subject: RE: [MLB-WIRELESS] milestone


>Couldn't you just write for each node near yours, every 5 meters or so,
check
>to see if the land is rising, then whether it's falling (ie there's a hill
>between you and the node), and flag a certain height hill (5 meters or so)
so
>indicate that you don't have (obvious) LOS? this wouldn't have to be every
>time the map is called, it could be stored for every pair of nodes. This
will
>be far from realistically calculating whether you've got LOS, but I'm a bit
>[insert self defamatory remark here] when it comes to my own geographics,
and
>looking at the node map doesn't help at all (no, I haven't gotten out the
>binoculars/e-mailed ppl, 1) it never occurred to me :-) 2) there's only ONE
>operational node within 20 km of me).
>
>> > Off topic, is there a way to program into the node map an
>> > indicator telling
>> > you, geographically, whether you have LOS to an operational
>> > node? Discounting
>> > tree, roof tops, etc, just depending on hills/elevation.
>>
>> You need path profiling software to do this, and even then, results are
not
>> always what you expect.  I live in an area where profiling software is
far
>> from accurate, unless the terrain info is extremely detailed.
>
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