I read a while back about a system the Chinese were deploying that uses commercial radio stations as the 'background' transmitters and military installations as the receivers. The military keeps track of the 'normal' radio traffic patterns and tracks aircraft based on changes in those patterns. It supposedly scares the pants of the US military cuz there are no military radar transmitters to hit, only civilian transmitters. This stealth detections sounds similar, but why do mobile phone transmissions bounce off stealth aircraft, anyone know?
Free vector maps of the world:
From ESRI:
http://www.esri.com/data/online/quickmap.html
Digital Chart of the World:
http://www.maproom.psu.edu/dcw/
You'll probably have to tack together to get what you want. The FREE GIS package can handle all this data no problem and export as you like. If this is all a bitch, email me and I'll try to help you out, like pro bono and all. Anything for video games. Anything.
There is a big big difference between maps and a GIS. With maps you can find your way (maybe), with a GIS you can plot cruise missile courses, delineate ideal habitat for pandas etc, and snoop on your industrial competitors via satellite imagery, and much much more. Get a klue.
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I read a while back about a system the Chinese were deploying that uses commercial radio stations as the 'background' transmitters and military installations as the receivers. The military keeps track of the 'normal' radio traffic patterns and tracks aircraft based on changes in those patterns. It supposedly scares the pants of the US military cuz there are no military radar transmitters to hit, only civilian transmitters. This stealth detections sounds similar, but why do mobile phone transmissions bounce off stealth aircraft, anyone know?
Free vector maps of the world: From ESRI: http://www.esri.com/data/online/quickmap.html Digital Chart of the World: http://www.maproom.psu.edu/dcw/ You'll probably have to tack together to get what you want. The FREE GIS package can handle all this data no problem and export as you like. If this is all a bitch, email me and I'll try to help you out, like pro bono and all. Anything for video games. Anything.
There is a big big difference between maps and a GIS. With maps you can find your way (maybe), with a GIS you can plot cruise missile courses, delineate ideal habitat for pandas etc, and snoop on your industrial competitors via satellite imagery, and much much more. Get a klue.