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NEWSCIENCENEWSCIENCENEWSCIENCE of 1° at atime. This is very useful,as grid points over any area of the Using you can see how all the harmonic world and then print them out. importal values change between 0° and 90° However, it was up to the individual to keep latitudes. to take the coordinates and plot custome Bruce learned years ago that these them onto a map of their choosing. In 20 harmonic values vary with latitude. This was a great beginning because softwar Therefore, if you could drive a car no one else provided the capability. was rele from the equator, which is 0° But as time passed, we knew that we mappin. latitude, to the North Pole, which is needed to provide a mapping used the 90° North latitude, your reality would functionality for people to use. had rele continuously change as [IR = you travelled. You would pan not be the same person at remem CSUN Sere eaten the equator as you would ee - ee be at the North Pole. 2 tassel saree fh beeen TETRETTIRTIG —Nagnete Fuld Spend’ Lift However, because you — ooops SDADCOOGTOOOO amen arama it hammers would be manifesting at + 44000 conan Faaonannanoe ‘Soya ft Meme the same rate as your car —— CANT ASAE Strap Sena tt and the environment \samoeseasonto TORRE firey Reeomcanomere, around you, and because ard CORTES So tse of relativity, you would not ermal ST ap condemns notice any difference. This ed ST Ene casas is because you would be in aor SEPSTSWTE Scot ande ses , TET : paencantoa sync with the process. The = Te Renee rem experience would be the ——— —— — same if you were driving Figure 4: Equation I: Energy from the equator to the South Pole. It would make no Jom else difference. OS reer SS whi Theoretically, this would igen cos ; fina — mean that any type of vehicle, | = = an * G aircraft or watercraft which — —— mil travelled primarily north-south ee Gow routes would experience more — rele wear and tear (micro-fractures) lcd iad tim than those which travelled piaacieted sof primarily east-west routes. powers wo ant. Using a royalty-free database was important to us, because we wanted to keep the cost reasonable for our customers. In 2006, a new version of the software, called Gridpoint Atlas®, was released which had enhanced mapping functionality. But, it still used the first map database that we had released back in 2003. Now we come to the present year, 2010. We knew that the map database included with the software was dated, but it had worldwide coverage and was royalty free. Street-leve map databases were available, but the technology was expensive to distribute because mos map vendors wanted a royalty per copy. This would have put the software out o reach of most people. Tha was not what we wanted. But, there was something else available that was free and which people could use at no cost: Google™ Earth. Google had spent hundreds o! millions of dollars developing Google Earth since its initia release in 2005. For the firs time, here was a piece o software that not only had worldwide coverage using satellite imagery, but also was continually updated. That in itself was huge, but Google Earth also loaded different- resolution satellite imagery as a person zoomed in closer to an area. This was a breakthrough product, and Google allowed the public to use the software free of charge. Bruce and | knew that there was no way we could compete with Google's deep pockets. In addition, Google's Terms of Use forbade anyone from using its imagery in a commercial software product. Google didn't mind your using its satellite imagery ath Wagrete Fait moe el = ieee comes veo rcrabarr oe Cnt Lata = ~ ne co OOO TRA soe 5 SSS 2 err — The Map Window For most people, the Map Figu window of the Gridpoint Atlas software will be very exciting because you can pick any area of the world and plot the World Grid upon it. You can then view that plot in Google Earth. To understand why the software works the way that it does, let's look at its history. Gridworks™ was the first version of the software and was released to the public in 1993 as an MS-DOS® program. From the beginning, we gave people the ability to calculate Figure 5: Harmonic Field to Latitude: Magnetic Field to Gravity Acceleration In 2001, we released the first Microsoft® Windows® version of the Gridworks software. It still did not provide a mapping capability. In 2003, we released Gridpoint™, the first version of the software that included a royalty-free worldwide map database. This was not a street- level database, but it was useful for printing out maps and driving to coordinates on the maps. NEXUS ¢ 51 Figure 4: Equation I: Energy FEBRUARY - MARCH 2011 www.nexusmagazine.com