Streetcar Wireless Corridor
The curious cat was climbing all over the Portland Streetcar stop today, trying to figure out how it all works…”the next train will arrive in 2 minutes”… when who should arrive but the Streetcar Police.
No shots were fired. The police were checking all the stops for the official media event tomorrow morning showcasing their new “live” Portland Streetcar Map. It tracks the streetcar with a GPS detrived cursor.
Tell the Streetcar people you’re with Wireless Weekly and you get free food Mar 26th at 1pm in the Streetcar Office under the Fremont Bridge in the Pearl district. Nextbus will be showing off their fancy gadgets.
Your intrepid kitty intends to suck up to Rick Gustafson and explain how Streetcar can make the 4.5 mile route the nation’s first unwired corridor. Here’s the plan; put a $800 webpad with a $200 802.11a/b card in each trainstop. A nice litte VIEWSONIC VIEWPAD 100 should do the trick. Take a Bus Ride to the Future with OpenGISPocketPC Map info. Your PocketPC or Palm could beam down Portland Walking Tours, syndicated radio shows from The Book Show or Audible.com, OregonLive, MP-3 or MP-4 downloads ($.99 a tune, $1.99 a movie), the “live” streetcar map and of course lots of ads.
Can’t forget the ads. If each stop costs $2000 to unwire, your feliness figures it will make oodles of riches for Rick and the gang at Streetcar. Figure $300/mo for each of 30 stops ($9,000/mo or nearly $100K/year. Rick Gustafson, BTW, is behind saving the Frank Lloyd Wright house project and the Oregon Gardens . Sam’s Light Rail Page has photos and other goodies.
PS: I’m now back from the event. While there I had the pleasure of meeting David Schargel, the creator of portlandwalkingtours.com. David has a terrific walking tour and is enthusiastic about providing hand-held tours. He knows of which he speaks. David is the founder of a truly innovative company based right here in Portland – Aportis. Aportis, founded in 1997, creates, develops and markets a line of handheld software products such as AportisDoc for e-books in the palm of your hand. Download their software then visit their eBook Library with over 4000 free titles!
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Left by kenpothestar on August 8th, 2007