 k kragen sitaker kragen pobox com writes k planning battle tactics for this reason the intelligence k press reports spy satellites have had NUMBER meter resolution for k many years the military already have these spy satellites they are basically hubble pointed the other way so i doubt they will be a big enough customer of this service to justify a next generation wireless network rollout for the rest of us k finding an individual vehicle in a city might occasionally be k possible with NUMBER m images and might occasionally also be worth k the money my car is only just over NUMBER NUMBER meters across and maybe NUMBER meters long so that means roughly six pixels total surface area you might find a NUMBER wheeler this way but how often do people misplace a NUMBER wheeler such that it is _that_ important to get old images of the terrain since they can t send up aircraft to update images in realtime every time how is this different from just releasing the map on dvds why wireless i thought of the common problem of lost prize cattle but there again will there really be business case for creating a hi res map of wyoming on the fly instead of just doing what they do now and hiring a helicopter for a few hours k for small areas you have legitimate access to it s probably k cheaper to go there with a digital camera and a gps and take k some snapshots from ground level aerial photos might be k cheaper for large areas areas where you re not allowed or k perhaps physically able to go and cases where you don t k have time to send a ground guy around the whole area i can see lower res being useful for geologists but considering their points of interest change only a few times every few million years there s not much need to be wireless based on up to the minute data i expect most geologists travel with a laptop perfectly capable of dvd playback and i also expect the most interesting geology is in regions where the wireless ain t going to go i don t mean to nit pick it s just that i m curious as to a the need for this product that justifies the extreme cost and b how we d justify the ubiquitous next generation wireless network that this product postulates when we still can t find the killer app for NUMBERg gary lawrence murphy garym teledyn com teledynamics communications inc business advantage through community software URL computers are useless they can only give you answers pablo picasso 