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Super Maps for the 21st Century
Roland Piquepaille writes "After five years of trials, Craig Knoblock and his team at the Information Sciences Institute of the University (ISI) of Southern California, have developed Heracles Maps, an easy-to-use laptop package to optimize routes in the whole world for both military and business travelers. This news release, "A SuperMap for Soldiers -- Or Business Travelers," says that the application integrates various sources of geospatial information, such as satellite imagery of mapping data. From this data, soldiers can easily find a safe route between two locations without being seen or shot from an enemy in another location. this package can easily be adapted to civilian applications, such as a powerful travel planner. You'll find more details and references in this overview."
From this data, soldiers can easily find a safe route between two locations without being seen or shot from an enemy in another location.
From this very same data, opponent soldiers would be able to deduce automatically a blind spots in the vicinity of their location an send some intelligent robotic mines there, or maybe a bunch of children with hand grenades.
Of course, a quality of that data in the heat of battle would be interesting problem...
- Sir, we can't go this way. My head-on just shows there are 65535 enemy tanks over there!
- Check your uplink, soldier!
- Sorry sir, BSOD. Perhaps we are under some microwave fire, arn't we?
There you are, staring at me again.