[IP] more on with editor commentmore on Vint Cerf muses about Google role, broadband

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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, broadband


I'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pay our GPS vendor for the update and is three months out of date  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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