I don't know, Mike, but I'd be willing to volunteer some grunt time to
giving you a hand bringing this about...
I'm always looking for new and interesting projects :)
-Jon
"Michael Maskalans" <dml@tepidcola.com> wrote in message
news:032D1E63-CFF3-11D8-B7B9-000A277E09C8@tepidcola.com...
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>
> On Jul 7, 2004, at 0:37, Bill Pitz wrote:
>
> > I'm still waiting for in-cab wireless cameras and maps with gps
> > coordinates of all of the vehicles. :-)
>
> that'd be easy if there was decent wireless coverage out there.
>
> plug my GPS into my laptop and show tracking, have a live view of my
> camcorder up as well, and then serve my desktop via Ambrosia's
> SnapzProX and a cell phone with a 3G wireless broadband connection.
> But as I recall, getting more than a bar or two of digital cell signal
> in the barn is tough enough, and I'm sure there's nothing at all down
> in the stream.
>
> As for a live map with all vehicles... let me think about that for a
> second....
>
> if everyone had a GPS that could send a NIMA data stream to a central
> server (there would have to be a computer local to the antenna parsing
> and pushing), along with an ID tag, it would be simple enough to parse
> that data onto a graphic of the property. I think you could even do it
> with nothing other than PHP using GD, so it would just query the NIMA
> database and create/update the graphic as the page was loaded. That
> would actually be pretty damn easy.
>
> And then if you've got a central server going already, and a networked
> computer in each of the trucks already, just add a camera, and push
> images up to the server along with those coordinates.
>
> Then you could also make sure everyone's digital cameras' clocks are
> synched, and you could then run through after the fact and location-tag
> all photos based on where the truck of the owner was when the pic was
> taken, and I see some very cool interface browsing possibilities for
> the photos there. They could be looked at geographically as well as
> chronologically. That would be tres cool.
>
> I suppose it could also be set up to be not-so-live, and do a data dump
> when the computer came in-range of a network, too. I can just see the
> bandwidth use spiking as trucks drive back up to the barn after an
> afternoon out and a few hours of local logging is dumped to the
> server....
>
> Now why is it again that I'm unemployed? who could I sell this setup
> to, I wonder?
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