Text 7382, 60 rader
Skriven 2006-09-06 13:42:38 av Kenneth Parrish (8:8/2)
   Kommentar till text 7373 av Maurice Kinal (1:140/13.1)
Ärende: Re: gps navi.  was:Re: ttylinux
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-=> Maurice Kinal wrote to Kenneth Parrish <=-

        [ gps navigation data automatic from some services ]
 MK> I am not sure how much of that actually uses gps.  Maybe
 MK> Victoria and possibly Nanaimo but definetly not Ladysmith.
pretty sure dallas police and some other local departments do..

 MK> They do have a volunteer fire department that uses a big siren
 MK> to let it's members know about an emergency.  The RCMP (police)
there's a fortune bout the RCMP; I can get it with a search..

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 MK> isn't that big a department and I think their budget probably
 MK> doesn't allow them to get too fancy.  Ambulance isn't 24/7
 MK> locally so in an emergency after 10pm you'd be ferried off to
 MK> Nanaimo but they may have closed emergency services in the
 MK> Ladysmith hospital now so you'd end up in Nanaimo anyhow. Don't
 MK> quote me on that last one as I only heard that rumour a few years
 MK> back and haven't confirmed it.  Bottomline is here on the
i might look at this on google earth (tm) some day. keep the point purty (tm)

 MK> point you're pretty well much in the dark, nevermind traffic
 MK> reports, gps or otherwise.  The infrastructure isn't here other
 MK> then basic services like water, electricity, and the such.  No
 MK> DSL that is for sure.  We do have cable though but that is it in
 MK> terms of any extras.
dsl here now, done over the 60s buried copper pairs, costs per year what
simular service cost per month, a decade back: when dollars bought about twice
as much gas, electricity, propane, and other such stuff, or actually more for
some o' those.

 KP> you could turn around, put off your trip, or make other arrangements,
 KP> often, if ya knew.

 MK> That is what happens alrighty but seldom any advance warning
 MK> other then the usual grapevine if one of the neighbours
 MK> happened to try.

 KP> One o' these days.
 KP> :)

 MK> Probably.  I still want to cover a few of the basics first.  As
 MK> far as gps I am more interested in the raw data and corrections
 MK> which really doesn't need any fancy display although I still
 MK> want to replicate that just for fun.  :-)
are the data 32 bit ?

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