[OSGeo-Discuss] Discuss Digest, Vol 103, Issue 21

[Steven Feldman]

Henrique

Your opening words encapsulate a problem for me (at least) “my system” - this is an open source community. 

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Steven


> On 27 Jul 2015, at 20:00, discuss-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:
> 
> From: "Munich Orientation Convention" <volksnav at volksnav.de <mailto:volksnav at volksnav.de>>
> Subject: [OSGeo-Discuss] Location codes - best standard3all
> Date: 27 July 2015 11:50:07 BST
> To: <discuss at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:discuss at lists.osgeo.org>>, <Standards at lists.osgeo.org <mailto:Standards at lists.osgeo.org>>
> 
> 
> Hi Jonathan,
>  
> my system isn’t easy to understand if you try to understand all 25 benefits at once. 
> Let’s describe only the location code benefit: the codes consist on hours, minutes and radius, nothing else. It was made for children, so please try to think like a child.
>  
> Instead of molesting your customers with an address like:      
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> Howbery Park, Wallingford Oxfordshire, OX10 8BA,
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> you could indicate this:  www.volksnav.de/HRwallingford <http://www.volksnav.de/HRwallingford>
>  
> 193 blocks of houses from Oxford Carfax tower in direction m4, 
> respectively 93 blocks later than m4.
>  
> The width of a sector is radius/2 (!), so you’re close to the sector m5.
>  
> Besides: VolksNav is something like the military ro-theta navigation.
>  
> Henrique

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