On Sunday 19 December 2010 19:53:17 Rony wrote:
On Wednesday 15 December 2010 11:41 AM, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 08:35 +0530, Nagarjuna G wrote:
we can do more R&D and come out with more advancements if people support by buying these models.
well last time I discussed with jtd, he said with about 1.2L he can build two prototypes of an inch accurate device which could be manufactured for around 40K a piece (government is using devices which cost 7L a piece)
With this new low cost device, the Govt. should integrate GPS plotting with the PWD and everytime they widen roads or make any changes or even re-tar the roads, they update the GPS records.
You dont require gps - most of the time. ISRO cartosats have all the stuff down to .5 mtr res. Ofcourse after using public money to generate all that data, they have no qualms in pirating the stuff as their own and selling it for rs.200 per 100sq mtr. Third rate citizens that we are, we are restricted to a site known as bhuvan, which is a doze only site and does not work on doze either. Ayear after grandiose announcements and proly a whole lot of public money in the drain, the site is dead.
It takes a very special brand of idiocy to achive this, when the free GIS systems and tools simply work without any effort at all.
We had a grea time on Saturday mapping several places around khalapur. Shekhar Krishnan, one of the guys who got us started on this in 2007 thru the freemap workshop was present. His anecdotes on Mumbai's urban history was absolutely riveting. He has some very exiting stuff on hand - stay tuned.
DD shayadri was also there. WE ARE GOING TO BE TV STARS. Oh well, maybe not. But atleast the FOSS message on GIS and libre knowledge will spread.
We put those loggers to good use. Our "spectacle case GPS" as usual works like a charm - Dr.Nagurjuna, Erle Schyuler and afaik Sanjay Bhangar are the only owners of this on earth. Everyone decided that the loggers must be built in a spectacle box. My wife Punit - the person who actually manages to make our crazy ideas into devices and products - was also there and cant stop raving about the trip. Shekhar and Nagarjuna have a whole lot of ideas on the UI, so more work for Punit.
We should organise a mapcamp in khalapur or some similiar area. The Mumbai Amateur Radio Association runs such a field trip for training it's members on disaster and emergency use of Amateur radio. and it can be a nice template. Infact a collab with those guys would be really great.