I want to capture everything as well but store data such that sensor location is defined by its area not an orthogonal point on a sphere - and that is the problem looking for a solution - for sensors, photos and lots of other attributes.
I'm happy to start with a lat/lon reading but I want to place it in a globally defined area - a universal zip code not unlike the attempt here: http://www.nacgeo.com/nacsite/documents/nac.asp but open to anyone for free, of course. what a Recursive Triangular Mesh (as opposed to the Hierarchical variety) offers is a method of defining a spherical area from any point of origin - this discussion has obviously focussed on geospatial but RTM can be applied to any celestial or terrestrial object. - brian > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of stephen white > Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 2:16 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Geowanking] Open Street View > > > On 13/06/2007, at 10:54 PM, brian grant wrote: > > the street view focus on the visual seems to be an effort to > > capture the > > transient but my needs are to capture repeatedly over time and not > > just the > > visual - I need temperature, humidity, particulate and other > > atmospheric > > When you have your measurements, where do you put them? Both groups > of data are transient, and you may as well put your temperature and > humidity and particulate data in the same place as something that > lets you look around to see what's there. > > If you have a high particulate reading, wouldn't it be useful to pop > into that point and look to see that there's a factory just up the > road that is impacting on the sensor? If something's more humid than > it should be, you can see there's a fire hydrant spraying water on > your node! > > Why separate the two? Photos are sensor captures of light, right > alongside sensor captures of any other type. Throw in radiation, > throw in cosmic rays, throw in anything you like, and all of that > information is forever changing and transient in nature. > > I want to capture EVERYTHING, and make it just as accessible as being > there. If there was a tricorder that captured all the other data that > you want, then all that data could be represented in Open Street > View's databases, with an overlay saying "34 degrees" while you view! > > There is no conflict. It is the same problem. > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
