Reminds me of MIT undergrads.
Heh. They are MIT grads... From: http://www.nerdkits.com/team/ "We started NerdKits as MIT students "
If I could buy a car that got me to my destination without the time and hassle of requiring me to guide it and avoid traffic/bad drivers, then that would be a feature that I would value. So, if there is someone out there working on a car for people who hate driving, I'd like to encourage them to continue working on it. Do not be discouraged by the preceding poster.
Perhaps it could run on some sort of metal guides embedded in the road. You could then create a network of these guides and maybe even share the vehicle with others -- perhaps the city could own them and the infrastructure and you could just pay when you need to use it?
lol I feel sorry for anyone who has to go through a body scanner or who is singled out for a search (having gone through many, since I often travel with weird prototypes), the girl in that movie keeps saying, "all I was doing was asking questions." Totally reminds me of this.
Heh. Makes me think of this XKCD
Or Hitler??????? Ye gods, there's no hope left.
I call Godwin's Law
In order to apply coordinates to these maps, coordinates that are usable for anything other then simple viewing, you will have to find some way of morphing a grid with coordinates across the images you have after scanning. It might be something as simple as creating a transparent layer in Photoshop that can be stretched to align properly. My guess is that you would need some sort of custom plug-in for this to deal with the various projections used on the map images. Scaling shouldn't be an issue unless it is inconsistent and changes across the image.
Any graphics whizzes out there that can expand on this?
Even inconsistent scaling shouldn't be a problem. The company I work for sells PIV software (to measure fluid flows) and that has a dewarping algorithm which can correct for distortions caused by curved windows and off-plane camera alignment. I'm pretty sure that something like it could be applied to an old map that has incorrectly positioned features to bring them onto a sensibly shaped square grid for geocoding.
discludes
You mean excludes?
When you don't know what to do, walk fast and look worried.
