[OZAPRS] Info on Demand

[Andrew Rich]

You have seen INFO_KIOSK ?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Howard Small" <howard at small.com.au>
To: "Andrew Rich" <vk4tec at tech-software.net>; "Australian APRS Users" 
<ozaprs at aprs.net.au>
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 8:07 AM
Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] Info on Demand


> Yeah - it could simply be a message back to the originator. using the 
> originators position info as sent (embedded) in the query. The program 
> would search the database for the nearest whatever and respond with a 
> message that gives the distance, location, name, street????
>
> Howard
> VK4BS
>
> On 30/03/2011 8:02 AM, Andrew Rich wrote:
>> Delivered via APRS ?
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Howard Small" <howard at small.com.au>
>> To: <OZAPRS at aprs.net.au>
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 7:47 AM
>> Subject: [OZAPRS] Info on Demand
>>
>>
>>> Is there a way to get info on demand? For example, it is a bit annoying 
>>> to load down the network with information that is well known to local 
>>> users but could be useful to visitor (location of police station, 
>>> nearest petrol, bank, supermarket). It would be good if a user could 
>>> send a message such as "nearest bank" to some address and get a 
>>> response.
>>>
>>> Maybe this could be hosted at the local iGate rather than having to 
>>> store it all on some remote database.
>>>
>>> Howard
>>> VK4BS
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