[MLB-WIRELESS] Expressions of interest

[vak]

Hi EB,

This seems like a crazy idea to me - how many people have GPS units and are
prepared to spend months mapping this data ? Why not do something similar
to MW and/or get sponsored data which is feature rich.

I could understand you going to these lengths if there was no data
available, but there is a plethora of information out there that you could
get free/very cheaply.

Vaskos
--------



evilbunny wrote:

> Hello melbwireless,
>
>   Since we can't seem to easily obtain decent mapping data, we're
>   planning to actually create our own...
>
>   The data will be fairly basic vector type layers that can be munched
>   into something meaningful...
>
>   Idea at this stage is to create a simple XML type client for any/all
>   OS's that can pull data from GPS units...
>
>   Idea is you walk up to a intersection, grab GPS location (to as best
>   as possible the centre of the intersection without getting killed ;)
>   note the street names, (St, rd, etc etc) how many lanes, and other
>   bits that will make it useful. At this stage we're after any
>   suggestions on what data would be useful to capture etc...
>
>   Also trying to find out if people would be willing to go out and map
>   their suburbs or even surrounding suburbs, the data we plan to
>   release royalty free to anyone that wants it, some guys in the US
>   already have the mapping infrastructure to plot these vector points
>   into images... Because it will be royalty free there won't be any
>   issues with sharing it, because it won't be owned by any company
>   etc...
>
>   There are a lot of groups that could benefit from this apart from
>   wireless so there is a potential for a lot of collaboration between
>   different parts of the community to make this happen... and share in
>   the benefits of having it...
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  evilbunny                          mailto:evilbunny at sydneywireless.com
>
> http://www.cacert.org - Free Security Certificates
> http://www.nodedb.com - Think globally, network locally
> http://www.sydneywireless.com - Telecommunications Freedom
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature
Size: 1337 bytes
Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
URL: <http://lists.wireless.org.au/pipermail/melbwireless/attachments/20021205/3aeb425b/attachment.bin>