|
Points of Interest: June 3, 2004Problems, Problems. Pinellas County, Florida is doing something about unintentional cell phone calls to 911. Some of the older model cell phones that are still preprogrammed to dial 911 when the "9" key is pressed or bumped. That caused more than 70,000 accidental calls last year. Officials claim that Pinellas County is first in the nation to hand out cell-phone button guards to prevent folks from accidentally dialing 911. Message in a Tracked Bottle. UK artist Layla Curtis has put GPS tracking devices in bottles and tossed them into the ocean. Their paths can be tracked on an online map. Also available: notes from those who've found the bottles. Bid on Galileo Research. This week the GALILEO Joint Undertaking launched the second call for proposals for research activities for GALILEO. There's an overall budget of €67 million. The aim is to support the development of applications and user receivers to exploit the European satellite navigation system. No More Maps of Towns in Northern Ireland? Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland (OSNI) said it may have to stop producing local street maps. Sales of some maps are fewer than 50 per year and several local councils have not stepped up to partner in production. That means that maps of Belfast (which sell well) and those of Lisburn and Banbridge (whose councils have agreed to partner in production), will continue to be published. Others are in jeopardy. If news like this is important to you, sign up for our weekly GIS Monitor Newsletter. --------- Source: Material used herein is often supplied by external sources and used as is. |
|