On 30/11/15 13:43, Marc Gemis wrote: > On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 1:50 PM, Colin Smale <colin.sm...@xs4all.nl> wrote: >> > In my example the party that needs to do the translation from w3w to >> > lat/lon >> > would be Amazon, and they will probably be paying w3w for a licence to do >> > that. > Wouldn't it be more likely that Amazon would invent their own system > where customers get a mat with some sensors or build-in GPS tracker > (so I can move and take the mat with me) that can be used by the drone > ? Why would they rely on a (broken) third-party solution ?
And of cause why rely on some optical barcode marking when a wireless based tag would be better. May need to change the battery every few years, but it only need to be in receive mode until a drone is in range ... with a button to 'sync' location with base ... -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
