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From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 10:02:43 -0400
I just bought a TomTom 700. It is CAPABLE of daily updates to its data base (or some other period of time. ) While that is not yet automatic it is capable of doing so. As of now it can direct me to hostpitals etc like most GPSs. Dave
Begin forwarded message: From: Nick Laflamme <nick () laflamme us> Date: September 19, 2005 9:37:14 AM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: Re: [IP] more on Vint Cerf muses about Google role, broadbandI'm guessing Ray's car, like mine, has an automotive GPS that uses a database of "points of interest" that gets updated once a year if we pay our GPS vendor for the update and is three months out of date before we even see it.
Maybe hospitals and ATMs don't open, move, or close that often, but there will be a few cases in which case a live feed from a provider like Google will do better than my GPS's database.
Just a thought, Nick At 07:27 PM 9/18/2005 -0400, Raymcfarld () aol com wrote:
From: Raymcfarld () aol com Date: September 18, 2005 7:20:05 PM EDT I've had this in my car since 1998! Ray In a message dated 9/18/05 3:48:15 PM, dave () farber net writes:the capability to locate, say, the nearest hospital or ATM from mobile devices--as a critically important venture.
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