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route master
a gadget to precisely calculate the length of your planned route. | |
it comes with A3 sized ordnance survey type maps; all the roads are scored along their length and digitally encrypted. A little programmable model car is set down at the start point of your route.
on a key pad you type in the co-ordinates of your start and finish points and several places on the
way that you wish to visit e.g. coffee at a specific point on the M4, lunch at that swish little place on the main drag in llanfairpwllgwngogogarethgyndrobethllantysiliogogogoch (sp? cannot be bothered to look it up), take in a museum in the centre of London and then fish & chips and a beer in Lewes town centre. set the car down - it runs the distance on a couple of AA batteries and an LCD display on the top of the car displays the length of the journey and any hazardous weather condtions… oh OK I made that bit up – sorry.
CityZen
http://www.cs.man.a.../~hancockd/CityZen/
"CITYZEN is a combination of a world map and a database... You can...measure distances using the pen." [phoenix, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Mechanical map measurer
http://www.jholmesw...k/store/map110.html
[phoenix, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
Electro-mechanical map measurer
http://www.irl.bc.c...on/map-measures.htm
[phoenix, Oct 04 2004, last modified Oct 05 2004]
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Doesn't Mapquest already do this for you? Minus the little car, of course. And don't try telling me you don't have internet access in your car, [po]. |
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Nick, that is postively spooky. did you do that deliberately?? Very sorry Nick but that link just had to go. feel free to put up half a dozen different ones. |
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anyway I plan my journeys at home as I am renowned for my talent for getting lost. |
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Hey everybody! Nick put directions to his mum's house on the internet! Let's all go over there and see if she'll make us cookies or something! |
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I believe postcodes (which is what was used) narrow down a few houses. |
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thank you Nick. BTW that is such a nice link. |
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phoenix, phoenix, phoenix. yes lovely dear - but not half as much fun as mine eh? |
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tell your Mother, I am in the neighbourhood on Saturday. I will bring a quiche if she makes a big pot of tea <g> |
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I know they already have one of these. I have one in the glove box of my car. |
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yeah, well, don't lend it to po, you'll never see it again. ;) |
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sp: Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyllllantysiliogogogoch |
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whats that in *real* money? |
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