Tuesday, September 27, 2016

New idea for "Ranger Beads..."

I was trying to find a way to find points of interest by shooting an azimuth across a broad map online and realized that you can't hold a compass vertical to "Google Maps" to find the desired points of interest. But it occurred to me that it would be a good idea for the integration of a hand held PDA into transversing a map electronically to find waypoints such as e.g. (landmarks; buildings; hilltops; etc.)

What I was thinking was a compass designed to plug via standard jack, firewire, USB3 or other I/O to a PLGGR type device such as a PDA to transverse a map both electronically and onfoot. Though "Ranger Beads" would still be affective for the count, the new device would simplify land navigation for outdoor terrain traversing. The compass doesn't need wi-fi it only needs to transmit the degree/mil of the azimuth from the compass to the device by wire to find POI and implement a call or a waypoint. I started a repository for maps on www.github.com. I'm looking for topographical; satellite; images; and topographical landscape maps. Three versions of the topographical (old) would be nice to encrypt between corespondents. Good idea huh? I'm looking for a benefactor for the idea and GOV contract to start a production of prototype.

For the most part the topomaps don't even need to be current, It just needs 3 sets and 3 versions of the topographical landscape maps encompassing pretty much the world or area of operations.

To clarify: There would be a simple hand-held device that can read a particular lensatic compass as you're shooting an azimuth, the device has only a map and a pedometer and basic mathematical computations needed for it's application, with virtually no connectitivity. The device is only for traversing and achieving the estimated/computed layout of your pace count and pace direction so that you only have to do what the device tells you to, to traverse the range of terrain across the field of view from where you have shot your azimuth, given range and directional input and applied to your pace count baseline. It automatically, based on pace count baseline, traverses the range virtually before you start your count and identifies waypoints of pace count traversing like breaks in pace count upon impassable terrain.

A picture in case you can't read. 

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