Interactive map information exchange system
CA 1214258 A · Owner: Government Of United States, As Represented By The Secretary Of The Army · Inventors: Huber, William A.
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Apparatus and a method for quickly and accurately exchanging tactical military information between military field units utilizing existing communications systems over which digital map data is transmitted. Special maps are used which have the coordinates thereof encoded thereon in machine-readable form. A stylus responsive to said digital map data is adapted to be moved over the coded map to facilitate the plotting of data points corresponding to said digital map data and to read the coordinates of data points to be transmitted as digital map data to other military units.
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- Granted November 18, 1986. A Canadian patent filed before October 1, 1989 lasted 17 years from grant, so its term ended November 18, 2003.
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