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At the risk of getting off-topic, can anyone tell me why we have purple traffic cameras littering UK roads to provide traffic-flow news to mobile phone users, when you could simply monitor the flow of mobile phones from one road-phone cell to the next? Francis. "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" wrote: > > It is there. Check out the requirements for cell phone > systems and 911 services. Federally mandated too. > > The full potential is limited by some standards still > not being fully in place and the cost of creating > and maintaining the metadata. We could apply the > HumanML schema concepts and get quite a bit of progress if > the users are willing to fill in the forms and > grant permissions. This is limited only by bandwidth > and the will to register (like Hailstorm - > it depends on identity services). > > len > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joshua Allen [mailto:joshuaa@m...] > > Good point; I just tried this with my cellphone, but all of the > location-based services that find Pizza joints (like go2.com) require > that you type in a ZIP code or something first. That is pretty lame, > considering that the WAP provider should be able to at least give a good > guess based on source address of my device. I mean, the chances are > pretty low that someone in Washington would be connecting to a comm > tower in California... This is such a seemingly possible thing I wonder > why it's not already there? Of course, comm station is not the same as > pinpointing an exact city block, but still interesting. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this elist use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
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