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Dear CCN Internet Provider committee, I have been a CCN member since the freenet started over three years ago. I'm proposing to establish and maintain an IP website of waypoints (global position coordinates) for GPS satellite navigation users. Handheld GPS units are frequently being used nowadays by business people and other frequent travellers (like me) to find their way while visiting new locations. But in order for the GPS to work, it has to know a "waypoint" location - either by having been there before and told to remember, or by having the coordinates inputed by the user beforehand. You'd think there'd be a bunch of waypoint lists online already for GPS users. It turns out there aren't. Currently, the only waypoint resources on-line are alphabetical lists of a few cities and their airports' positions. My site will be geographical - for example, the user will begin on the main page with a list of continents, then will progress to countries, then cities... ultimately, I'd like to establish a database of coordinates of 5 or 10 well-known landmarks within major world cities. Like the Halifax Commons, or the Dartmouth Parclo, or Times Square. These coordinates would be provided by GPS users worldwide. I've floated this idea on the USENET group sci.geo.satellite-nav and have been surprised at the number of people who have indicated their willingness to participate. I know this project would be a lot of work. But I believe it would be well-used by thousands of GPS travellers every month. I'm well-experienced in website creation and maintenence- I have established sites for the NS Film Development Corporation (http://fox.nstn.ca/~nsfdc/), my school where I teach here in Seoul (http://www.uriel.net/~tefa/) and even 1998 ECMA winners Johnny Favourite (http://www.netcom.ca/~jfo/) as well as my own Korea-oriented homepage here at CCN. I'm going to be in Korea for another three months, but would like to begin my project now. When I leave I'll also have to abandon my current Korean ISP, which is why I'd like to use CCN as a permanent base for this site. I am submitting the on-line application form right now. I hope you can help me. Sincerely, David Waugh ag086@ccn.cs.dal.ca
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