A new technique makes GPS accurate to an inch
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Maybe they re-wrote Einstein's general theory of relativity from scratch, removing the 5-10 feet bugs. ;-)
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Pointless. Does it make sense to calculate the location of a moving object with such accuracy? Does it make sense to calculate the location of an object larger than an inch with such accuracy? Can you tell me, to the inch, the location of the Taj Mahal? The Pentagon? Mount Rushmore? If you have misplaced your iPhone, do you need more accuracy than "it's in your couch"?
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Pointless. Does it make sense to calculate the location of a moving object with such accuracy? Does it make sense to calculate the location of an object larger than an inch with such accuracy? Can you tell me, to the inch, the location of the Taj Mahal? The Pentagon? Mount Rushmore? If you have misplaced your iPhone, do you need more accuracy than "it's in your couch"?
It's a boon to marketers, though. When you are walking down an aisle at your local supermarket, the marketer will want to send you a text at the exact moment that you are standing in front of their product, which may only be 3-6 inches wide on the shelf. They will certainly want to know if you stopped and turned and looked at their product. Because then they can send a follow up text asking why you didn't actually purchase said product (they'll know that, too because they will correlate your cash register receipt with the phone that was standing in the checkout line at that moment).
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It's a boon to marketers, though. When you are walking down an aisle at your local supermarket, the marketer will want to send you a text at the exact moment that you are standing in front of their product, which may only be 3-6 inches wide on the shelf. They will certainly want to know if you stopped and turned and looked at their product. Because then they can send a follow up text asking why you didn't actually purchase said product (they'll know that, too because they will correlate your cash register receipt with the phone that was standing in the checkout line at that moment).
Why would my wife take my phone to the store? :confused:
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Pointless. Does it make sense to calculate the location of a moving object with such accuracy? Does it make sense to calculate the location of an object larger than an inch with such accuracy? Can you tell me, to the inch, the location of the Taj Mahal? The Pentagon? Mount Rushmore? If you have misplaced your iPhone, do you need more accuracy than "it's in your couch"?
Ha! you've never tried to decide which is the right exit on a roundabout... have you? :laugh:
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Ha! you've never tried to decide which is the right exit on a roundabout... have you? :laugh:
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At speed? :omg:
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At speed? :omg:
You know... it is always the same... smoking and noisy tires... Just joking... But this is a stupid thing GPS systems make today, if you enter a roundabout while speaking or similar, it's easy to miss the right exit... specially when something has changed since the last map update...
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I think this is awesome, and they are very developer friendly: what3words makes the entire earth addressable down to 3mx3m squares in 3 words. It's loads easier to say, as a human, "scenes.shed.booth" than either "Just near the north-west corner of the main lake of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, Australia" or "Lat/long -33.863523, 151.217154" And it works in uninhabited/unmapped places, too.