Posted by ^reaper^ on 08/25/05 03:16

While sipping absinthe, PerfectReign heard a loud sucking noise coming from
alt.2600, and hastily inscribed the following unintelligible Sanskrit in
<news:pan.2005.08.23.12.07.30.591153@127.0.0.1>:

> You should see some of the chit we're doing. Aside from this (
> http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/kai_gps_home.jpg and
> http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/kai_gps_home_zoom.jpg ) where I'm able
> to overlay my position using a Nextel GPS enabled phone onto an ARC GIS or
> Google Earth map and plot my coordinates during a given timeframe or say
> (http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/gps/randy.htm ) me overlaying a
> MapPoint map of my trip from work to lunch then Randy Rhode's gravesite (
> http://www.perfectreign.com/stuff/rhoads_50.jpg )using the GPS interface
> from CometTracker and Nextel, we're up to some coolness.
>
> I don't have a screenshot (yet) but I was doing a demo yesterday where we
> took our TeraData server information, married it with Google Earth into a
> KML (kind of like XML) file and tied that in one screen with our County
> building data so that you could "fly" over any county building, right
> click, get the Assessor parcel informaiton, the building billing
> information, or the CAD floorplans all in the same view.
>
> Very highly cool.
>
> Of course, the guy who I was working with has a 30" Apple display on his
> system. I only have two 19" displays. :P

Heh. Very cool. And yep, that's a perfect example of teh types of uses (and
fun) that can be had with gis. ^_~


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^reaper^

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