[Spam?] Re: google earth - [was: Re: Another simple GPS+GPRS idea]

Richard Franks spontificus at gmail.com
Tue Nov 28 17:40:34 CET 2006


On 11/28/06, Paolo Cavallini <cavallini at faunalia.it> wrote:
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> and the OpneMoko could be *the* right tool to implement the
> OpenStreetMap approach, thus boosting it.
> pc

Well, not all GPS devices are equal.. and there's always going to be a
device better at XYZ if the device specialises in a particular
technology.. but the power to extract more meaning from less accurate
data is preferrable to having more accurate data which is harder to
apply context to.

E.g. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/London

'Tagging' street names is slower than extracting the data.. but how
quicker would it be if one could in 'map my route' mode, hit a button,
speak the name of the street.. or a geographical feature, which is
recorded relative to the GPS timestamps?

Richard




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