Anyone remember Metricomm?  The interner from the light-poles.  I still
have two (user) modems.  They all had their gps coordinates as part of
their connect data.

A Low-cost, versatile, 'hacker' gps would be welcome many places

On Mar 13, 2012 9:10 PM, "Dave Taht" <dave.taht@gmail.com> wrote:

> 1) jg and I were involved in olpc and one of my long term other
> projects has been to finish spreading the internet around the world.
> Doing that in many places gets hard. I was working on mesh networks,
> and having small gpses actually on routers on the poles/trees/etc
> would have helped a lot on finding the devices again. (this is
> something of project creep, see 3). In the long run (after this
> project!) I'm thinking something 'smile plug'-like+gps.