From: Eugen Leitl (eugen@leitl.org)
Date: Thu Oct 17 2002 - 15:22:00 MDT
On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Samantha Atkins wrote:
> I believe the original that prompted my comment included
> tracking objects down to the size of bullets.
There are not that many people, animals, vehicles, ordnance cruising
around. Ultrawideband radar could track a large insect, I think. A bird,
certainly. By the time we have the infrastructure, we have the crunch and
the hardware to represent that many moving objects (assuming, we really
need it).
It would make a good sense to run a distributed GIS on boxes strewn over a
landscape. After all, if I make a query to where a closest bar which is
serving cheap caipiri~na it rarely involves a asking patch of desert
downunder.
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