[FOSS-GPS] Re: FOSS-GPS Digest, Vol 12, Issue 3

Tyler Mitchell (OSGeo) tmitchell at osgeo.org
Tue Sep 22 13:42:10 EDT 2009


Following from Joseph's note, a similar domain I'm interested in is
surveying for natural resource management.  For some reason the
government likes logging machines to not drift outside approved
areas ;-)

Tyler

On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 11:09 +0200, Juan Lucas Dominguez Rubio wrote: 
> Hi.
> Every time I hear about high-precision GPS, I try to imagine a use
> case where that improvement makes a difference.
>  
> In reasonable open sky conditions, I think my phone's integrated GPS
> allows me to identify a car in a row of cars or a tree in a dense
> park.
>  
> Which precision would you achieve with the architecture you are
> proposing?
>  
> Can you give an example where the precision you expect to achieve is
> useful and the precision I currently get isn't?
>  
> Regards,
> Juan Lucas
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> > De: foss-gps-bounces at lists.osgeo.org en nombre de Yao Zhongbang
> > Enviado el: mar 22/09/2009 5:16
> > Para: foss-gps at lists.osgeo.org
> > Asunto: [FOSS-GPS] Re: FOSS-GPS Digest, Vol 12, Issue 3
> > 
> 
> > Hi, Joseph,
> > 
> > Yes, I would like to participate the N900's DGPS project. I am very
> instersted in this DGPS project, which I had the same idea two years
> ago.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Zhongbang
> > 
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>           1. Participants wanted for Nokia's PUSH competition (Joseph
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>         Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 13:03:24 +0100
>         From: Joseph Reeves <iknowjoseph at gmail.com>
>         Subject: [FOSS-GPS] Participants wanted for Nokia's PUSH
>         competition
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>         Dear all,
>         
>         Nokia is running a competition to hack / publicise their
>         upcoming N900
>         smartphone; they say:
>         
>         "We want you to come up with ideas to hack the N900. A panel
>         of expert
>         judges will pick the most impressive ideas. We’ll support you
>         to
>         create them and then take the final creations on a world
>         tour."
>         
>         There's more on the website here:
>         http://blogs.nokia.com/pushn900/index.php/what-is-push/
>         
>         I'd like to hear from people who would be interested in
>         contributing
>         towards a D-GPS project based upon the Nokia phone; I'll stand
>         as
>         project lead and start work on the 1000 word description if
>         there's
>         enough interest. I propose the development of a D-GPS
>         framework to
>         enable high accuracy GPS position recording within a network
>         of
>         locally connected N900s and to provide two implementations of
>         this
>         technology; a hardware hack to provide the phone with a high
>         sensitivity antenna and detail pole for survey grade recording
>         and a
>         second, standard hardware implementation, to enable precise
>         location
>         and messaging within an urban environment.
>         
>         The deadline for proposals is October 11th, so if anyone's
>         interested
>         we better start working soon.
>         
>         Cheers, Joseph
>         
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