Before too much heat is put on google and the like, it is the responsibility of the local jurisdiction to provide accurate mapping, at least in the USA.. The case above is may be a raster to vector issue, however most of the 'the road we're driving on isn't on the map' and other inaccuracies is because the local municipality has not yet distributed the new maps and/or may have missed the last set of map updates or distributed them with the errors.
Speak with your local emergency services. All of us in the volunteer groups carry pagers for the same reasons you describe. Volunteer fire and rescue are your best bets, but also hospitals would be a great help in finding your local dealer.
The FCC does much more than relegulate who buys and controls the frequency spectrum that the public sees, both comercial and public use (Amature Radio, remote control cars, etc). It also deals a lot with RF safety, boundaries, military and civilian spectrum boundaries, actually defining on maps where the towers are and how much power they output. Who else is going to say my remote control for my TV shoulded interfer with my next door neighbors mobile phone? Who is forcing the phone companies to let me keep my phone number when I change carriers on my mobile? The industry certainly doesn't want us to. Granted I'm biased by my father working there, but he was one of those engineers that does much of the research on RF safety harzards and geospatial mappings that everybody seams to like. I for one like that fact that there are fences are the microwave dishes so I don't litterally cook.
Yes, the FCC should get out of the censorship business, the sponsors do a much better job at it as another commentor stated. Besides, 1st amendment ring a bell. The FCC should stick what it was intented to do: make sure everybody plays nicely together. With an industry with this many big money players, there is a need for some one to play mother to a bunch of greedy little children who don't know yet how much they really affect everyone else.
Is there really any thing different than going to your local book store, pulling a book off the shelf and reading it there. People have been doing that for centuries. That's how we decide whether the book is worth buying or not. Might as well sue the bookstores for having chairs and promoting 'illegal' reading of the books. The only thing new with this is it speeds up finding the book you really want.
record w/ the bitrate set as variable, that way then more data is need to create a complete sound, then higher bit rate, and vise versa.
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Before too much heat is put on google and the like, it is the responsibility of the local jurisdiction to provide accurate mapping, at least in the USA.. The case above is may be a raster to vector issue, however most of the 'the road we're driving on isn't on the map' and other inaccuracies is because the local municipality has not yet distributed the new maps and/or may have missed the last set of map updates or distributed them with the errors.
Speak with your local emergency services. All of us in the volunteer groups carry pagers for the same reasons you describe. Volunteer fire and rescue are your best bets, but also hospitals would be a great help in finding your local dealer.
The FCC does much more than relegulate who buys and controls the frequency spectrum that the public sees, both comercial and public use (Amature Radio, remote control cars, etc). It also deals a lot with RF safety, boundaries, military and civilian spectrum boundaries, actually defining on maps where the towers are and how much power they output. Who else is going to say my remote control for my TV shoulded interfer with my next door neighbors mobile phone? Who is forcing the phone companies to let me keep my phone number when I change carriers on my mobile? The industry certainly doesn't want us to. Granted I'm biased by my father working there, but he was one of those engineers that does much of the research on RF safety harzards and geospatial mappings that everybody seams to like. I for one like that fact that there are fences are the microwave dishes so I don't litterally cook.
Yes, the FCC should get out of the censorship business, the sponsors do a much better job at it as another commentor stated. Besides, 1st amendment ring a bell. The FCC should stick what it was intented to do: make sure everybody plays nicely together. With an industry with this many big money players, there is a need for some one to play mother to a bunch of greedy little children who don't know yet how much they really affect everyone else.
-tom c.
Is there really any thing different than going to your local book store, pulling a book off the shelf and reading it there. People have been doing that for centuries. That's how we decide whether the book is worth buying or not. Might as well sue the bookstores for having chairs and promoting 'illegal' reading of the books. The only thing new with this is it speeds up finding the book you really want.
record w/ the bitrate set as variable, that way then more data is need to create a complete sound, then higher bit rate, and vise versa.
rekarc@hotmail.com