"...I should be able to ask my property where my corners are..."
Interesting talk about the future of GPS positioning.
http://gpsworld.com/leadership-awards-2012-real-time-kinematic-in-your-palm/
I heard about this on the news today. Cheap centimeter accuracy GPS devices for all sorts of devices and applications coming soon.
This really shouldn't come as a surprise.
The biggest cost probably has been governed by licences and software.
Our current units are probably still way overpriced.
I guess Trimble and Co would argue otherwise.
I do acknowledge the research and development that has gone into this and someone pays.
Recently in another post was the volumes by consumer camera opportunity.
Just another bit of slick technology taking advantages of other areas of modern technology.
Wonder how many parcels would safely make it to the destination?
Overhead wires, trees, other obstacles not to mention lead slugs!
No doubt a few would be lost along the way.
There was some great footage on the TV news lately showing a drone hovering around some sort of monkey in a tree. The last footage was of the monkey grabbing it and throwing it to the ground.
That was linked to on here, too.
We can't escape the coming technology. Like I read a year or so ago (can't remember the source) the profit we will generate in the future will not come from our field crews and their "fancy" equipment, but it will come for our databases and office work.
It would be nice to buy Trimble yellow at less that $100/once though.
It was a chimpanzee, and it knocked the UAV down with a stick.
> We can't escape the coming technology. Like I read a year or so ago (can't remember the source) the profit we will generate in the future will not come from our field crews and their "fancy" equipment, but it will come for our databases and office work.
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> It would be nice to buy Trimble yellow at less that $100/once though.
When I was working in the early 2000s in a GIS company, this was what was being said in GIS conventions. That the value of information of maps will be in the database that work behind the GIS maps. My company believed this & we started to create a street & POI database for major cities in Singapore & Malaysia. We advertised it in various websites & generated some interests.
Then came Google Maps......and then the phone stopped ringing.....no more email inquiries....:-(