[OZAPRS] Info on Demand
Howard Small
howard at small.com.au
Wed Mar 30 09:58:49 EST 2011
Have now. Neat. Wonder why it has not been publicised/utilised more?
Trouble is, you can have a fantastic installation with all sorts of
relevant info but if no one knows about the system, no one asks the
questions...
I am just doing some testing with it.
Thanks,
Howard
On 30/03/2011 8:10 AM, Andrew Rich wrote:
> 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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