[MLB-WIRELESS] Expressions of interest

[evilbunny]

Hello vak,

Tyson asked steve to forward me contact details on where you guys got
yours from and nothing to date has been forth coming, besides there is
a bigger picture, royalty free data has a lot of commercial benefit, so
I was hoping to pick help up from that sector once we had the ball
rolling... I'm not looking at this for short term gain, there is a lot
of people community wise out there that could use free data, a person
emailed me the other week looking for data to map out some community
events that happen regularish world wide... I'm sure once it was out
there, there would no doubt be a lot of demand for it... Current data
is at the whim of commercial enterprise and government, at least the
US govt gives out decent free data sets in the US... most mapping data
sets are derived and collated by a government body in Australia...

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Thursday, December 5, 2002, 10:01:56 PM, you wrote:

v> Hi EB,

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

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

v> Vaskos
v> --------



v> 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
>>
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