Hmmm.. guess some nascar nuts that know their sh*t could come in hadny on a
project like that... Myabe you can discover who designed their setups and
be able to gleen some of that info... Worth a shot if you are really
interested...
Bill Day
billday@consolidated.net
http://users.consolidated.net/billday/
A rich man isn't always wealthy, he just has all the love he wants and can
give..
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'95 Ext Cab 3.9L Mag 4x4 Flame Red 3.55 LSD turning 30x9.50x15's
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon" <jonsdak@adelphia.net>
To: <dakota-truck-moderator@bent.twistedbits.net>
Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 9:20 AM
Subject: Re: DML: Webcam?
>
> 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...
> >
> >
> > 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?
> > --
> > Michael Maskalans <http://mike.tepidcola.com/dak/>
> > '98 Dakota CC 4x4 318 '84 RamCharger 4x4 360
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> >
>
>
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