On 02/02/2008, at 1:14 AM, Allan Doyle wrote:
I would think that regardless of whether you use internal datums or WGS84, you also want to work out a mapping of the coordinate system to place names. Much like the fuzzy neighborhood naming activities. "Third shelf from the top in my office." "Red box in the attic that we used to keep ornaments in. "
Yep, definitely a great thread, and I notice the email addresses with EDU in them have ideas... while the commercial ones answer questions but ideas are intellectual property. After all, companies with $60 million in venture capital and looking for a way to spend it... this seems a hot area now, doesn't it?
I got into computers before most other people did, and I saw how that got screwed over. Remember the 80s with so many interesting machines with different approaches? I got into the Internet before most other people did, and it's in the process of being screwed over. Remember the early 90s before filtering?
Sure, the bandwidth is nicer, but the essence of what was interesting was so powerful even over 2400 baud modems. That's gone now. There are advantages to commercialisation, but it's always at the expense of something else. Pros and cons.
I wonder what I'll get into next, before everyone else comes along? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
