EatingOnions@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours agoPokémon Go data ‘exploited to develop navigation’ for military dronestvpworld.comexternal-linkmessage-square17fedilinkarrow-up1173arrow-down12
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minus-square🇨🇦 tunetardis@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·13 hours agoThe article suggests visual scans—presumably of Pokéstops and what not—could be used in drone navigation when GPS is jammed. Wouldn’t Street View be far more appropriate for that?
minus-squarecomrade_twisty@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·13 hours agoPlaygrounds and hospital atriums are generally not mapped well on street view.
minus-squarekungen@feddit.nulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 hours agoScans include more information than just pictures, as it’s tied with metrics of azimuth/yaw/pitch/roll/etc.
minus-squarefrongt@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·12 hours agoIt gets outdated pretty quickly, and only covers where they can drive. Not to mention, if you can crowdsource it, you don’t have to do it at all.
The article suggests visual scans—presumably of Pokéstops and what not—could be used in drone navigation when GPS is jammed. Wouldn’t Street View be far more appropriate for that?
Playgrounds and hospital atriums are generally not mapped well on street view.
Scans include more information than just pictures, as it’s tied with metrics of azimuth/yaw/pitch/roll/etc.
It gets outdated pretty quickly, and only covers where they can drive. Not to mention, if you can crowdsource it, you don’t have to do it at all.