Sounds to me like we need a WAP/SMS accessable GPS database. IE you could SMS your location & description to the service which just puts it in the database, alternately you SMS it a location and it SMSes you back some nearby points. Obviously to cover the cost you'd either need to subscribe or maybe somehow it could be tacked on your phone bill. I don't really know all this GPS stuff.
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Terry Collins wrote: > Jamie Honan wrote: > > > > > I've never understood why cycling groups don't get together > > with a few GPS recievers and make some really nice cycling > > maps. > > Why Not? > > 1) GPS receivers are not accurate enough. > > 2) GPS receivers are not reliable enough. > > 3) GPS receivers have a coverage like mobile phones = big holes. > > 4) GPS receivers do not have the capacity (waypoints) = required laptop. > > 5) Cost - software - very expensive, or Grass > > 6) Cost - labour - who is going to pay the person to process the data? > > > > > For personal use, you could 'screen scrape' some whereis > > queries : e.g. using whitepages. > > Scott Howard might light to post the URL's of the rides he has done > where he has laid GPS data over this style of map. > > On the positive side, someone (apologies forgot where I'm filing stuff) > from Social Change Online is working on a project for online entry of > similar stuff (but it uses very expensive proprietary software). > > > Is anyone interested in this sort of thing? - i.e doing an open source > activity? > > Bicycle Australia (http://www.woa.com.au/ba) has basically decided the > way forward for them is currently just to direct people to existing > commercial maps and later put some maps, as A5 landscape images, onto > WWW pages for people to download and print off themselves. Currently > each would need to be digitized and created as a graphic. It would be > better however, it there was an online GIS system that people could just > create the map they want. > > -- ---<GRiP>--- Web: www.arcadia.au.com/gripz Phone/fax: 02 4950 1194 Mobile: 0408 686 201 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
