is this a fair summary of what you're looking for, Steve? geo-spatial index with following attributes:
- 3 dimensional (designated regions of volume) - recursive divisions and subdivsions of regions (resolution increases with address length) - converted from lat-long (locating a single point of reference contained within universally addressable region) - resolution of the designated region based on accuracy of the location measuring device (how precise - and hopefully accurate - is your GPS performance?) if so, I am too. - Brian stephen white wrote: > On 17/06/2008, at 8:36 AM, Raj Singh wrote: >> One simple way to discuss this in the short term is to start "wanking" >> on the various spatially-enabled, Yahoo Pipes-like tools. I know this >> isn't as meta or universal as you're talking about, but it's a place >> we can mess around with coding and not just talk theory. > > > I took a couple of days before replying so that I could think of an > explanation for my problem with Pipes/mashups in this context. > > First, the points in favour of your suggestion are that removing the > map interface does generalise the information to a more general > context. The use of programming does create the flexibility to relate > information that is not reduced to a red dot on a map. > > But... :) > > The problem is that the information has already been reduced before it > can be manipulated by the code. It is no longer three dimensional, and > it is no longer surrounded by the original context. The data has been > captured and slotted into categories. > > So pipes and mashups are the valley of death that we keep rushing our > minds into, because it's not one problem. It's two different problems. > The mashup has specific interfaces to display the data it is handling. > The information needs to be the full amount of data that was captured. > > So we need to concentrate on 3d, audio, video, and the real world like > Google Earth's and Microsoft Virtual Earth's 3d modelling efforts. > Capturing data and extracting computable information, rather than > humans translating for computing convenience. > > So I believe a 3d environment in real time is the minimum starting > point. So I could go to something like Second Life, but that lacks the > scope and ambition of mirroring reality itself. > > Sure, I could go work for companies doing that kind of stuff, but to > be a matter of routine existence it does need to be ad-free. So... > free. :) > > Steve. > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 270.4.1/1510 - Release Date: 6/19/2008 > 3:21 PM _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
