Re: Re: JMG - Collins Street Flyover

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 12:34:00PM +1100, Michael Walker wrote:

As to the suggestion of catering to enthusiasts (or even those
slightly interested), if they were serious they could consider setting
up web cams linked from their site to show one or many of their depots
bustling with trams going in and out. Or even better, webcams that
point out the windscreen of some of the trams so people who have lots
of time and bandwidth can play being a tram driver.

The prior may be practical, but have you any idea of what the cost of
beaming a live image back to a server would be? You'd either have to
cop the high cost of the mobile network, arrange some satellite
connection or send it somehow over RF (whether it be across a low
frequency like the ones they use for voice communication between depot
and trams, in which case they'd have dialup speeds or they could use
802.11b but they'd either be within hundreds of metres of the tram or
have line of sight to it).

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Jeremy Lunn
Melbourne, Australia
Homepage: http://www.austux.net/

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