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Have you ever been on a vacation and wanted to get more information on what the building(s) is that is located far away?
By using your cellphone you could point at the building structure (as long as you had a line of site, the building could be any distance away) and with the aid of your cellphone's
GPS, accelerometer, and camera it could help pinpoint what exactly that building/structure is....it could tell you the exact address, and what it is (e.g., a Museum open to Tourists and gives hours of operations). Half-baked?
Here are more details if interested...
MORE DETAILS:
For example, maybe you are "traveling" in Paris and while on the Eiffel tower you look around the city and by using your camera you focus on a particular building and with the current phone's orientation (identified by the accelerometer) and your GPS position it could then use an algorithm to calculate the distance away the building exists from you and determine that object's true GPS location and from there, collect information about it to be displayed to the user.
What's that hill?
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[borisbarp, Jan 26 2008]
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oh good you repaired the grammar. |
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is everybody sitting comfortably? lets read the idea! |
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(I used to work in a school you know) |
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//Have you ever been on a vacation and wanted to get more information on what the building(s) is that is located a far away?// no! |
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//maybe you are "traveling" in Paris //
Does this mean you're "not really"
traveling? |
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//lets start again// - let's. Prepares
dunce's cap. |
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hee hee. actually its the first sentence, I'm most ashamed of. hee hee. |
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//actually its the first sentence, I'm most
ashamed of.// |
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Gr., Pnctn: "actually, it's the first sentence
I'm most ashamed of." |
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Also, I don't think you can be ashamed of
someone else's actions, unless (perhaps)
they're your child. <Grits teeth and
pointedly doesn't mention capitalization> |
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Ah. Right. As you were, then. |
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<school-child joke for [P]o> "What's the
capital of [P]ortugal?" "[P], miss." </s-cjf[P]
> |
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I have a few questions. How can an accelerometer determine the direction that you're facing? How does the device decide which, of the many buildings in the frame, is the one you're interested in? (It might be logical to assume that you're more likely to want to know about Truro Cathedral than Marks and Spencer's multi-storey car park, but you never know.) Having done that, how does it determine the distance? Why is a camera involved, particularly one built into a cell-phone?
Why not just have a device that accurately determines location and height (GPS receiver), direction (digital compass) and azimuth (tilt sensor), in a similar form to a telescope. Point it at your edifice of choice and press the button marked 'Button'. It queries a database (either held in the unit and updated as necessary, or via the internet) and returns your result. |
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I have little use for pointing my phone at buildings, but
if I could point at people . . . I could be persuaded. I'd
need the "accelerama-obama-mama" to provide: name,
address, phone, true age and other relevant proclivities
of my target. Perhaps it could include more in depth
data, e.g. whether the target had ever visited the Eiffel
Tower, and, if so, what her subconscious thought
processes revealed. Professional interpretation of those
thoughts would make the device prohibitively large and
costly, given the price and volume of bull that
necessarily accompanies psychological opinion. I
guess, regrettably, the utility of the "Travel Helper"
would only be as good as the common sense and
insight of its user. |
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oh good you repaired the grammar. |
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is everybody sitting comfortably? lets read the idea! |
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(I used to work in a school you know) |
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sp:
Oh, good, you've repaired the grammar!
Let's start again, shall we?
Is everyone sitting comfortably? Let's read the idea! |
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(I used to work in a school, you know.) As a janitor, perhaps? |
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Also Pnctn: 'Let's start again.' (Or, if you
prefer 'Let's start again!', but certainly not
'Let's start again?' - unless this is a
typographical representation of the
famous Australian high-rising terminal). |
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// the famous Australian high-rising terminal // |
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Would that be the one at Kingsford Smith airport ? |
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That wasn't the one I was thinking of? |
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Ah, fixed. I should read back the things I write. This keyboard seems to have an A key that works when it feels like it. |
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My business partner invented and constructed the airbridges at Brisbane airport, though not Kingsford Smith. They classify as high-rising, able to accommodate everything from Fokker F-27s to 747s. He tells me they were also used for the A-380 when it landed at Brisbane. |
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Which leads us further afield from the
original topic with the question: who is
Kingston Smith? |
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Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. |
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Air Commodore Sir Charles Edward Kingsford Smith MC, AFC (February 9, 1897 - November 8, 1935), often called Charles Kingsford Smith, or by his nickname Smithy, was a well-known early Australian aviator. In 1928, he made the first trans-Pacific flight from the United States to Australia. He also made the first non-stop crossing of the Australian mainland, the first flights between Australia and New Zealand, and the first eastward Pacific crossing from Australia to the United States. He also made a flight from Australia to London, and set up a new record of 10.5 days. |
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Sydney's principal airport is named after him. |
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Ah, right. I wonder if he ever met Bobby
Luton or Micky London-City? |
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sp: "Kingston Smith" corrected to "Kingsford Smith" |
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//if he ever met Bobby Luton or Micky London-City// |
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Forgive me, I find that a little obscure. |
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Luton airport and London-City airport are
provincial, ah, airports in England. |
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We do a lot of that 'round here? |
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Care to quaintify how much? |
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Nice. I was expecting shekels. |
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[po] & [MaxwellB] - "actually, it's the first
sentence I'm most ashamed of." - you
mean "...of which I am most ashamed". |
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// London-City airport // |
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That's not an airport, it's a stone aircraft carrier with no arrestor wires and a shorter than average flight deck. The approach plate is a bitch (Because it's squashed down below the TMA for the LHR 28 runways), and ther noise abatement departure is even worse. Only a fool would try to land on it in anything bigger than a microlight. Kai Tak is an easy ride by comparison. |
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Back to the idea... a PDA with Google Maps would likely do this task better and faster than the proposed electrickery. |
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I thought the idea was a little familiar, don't work with hills, though, so maybe a scheme to build unique buildings on all hills everywhere should be undertaken, kind of pyramid building scheme version 2, lot of little ones, rather than just a couple of bigs ones. They could play Walk like an Egyptian on the onsite music system.. |
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