Deploying a larger GPS network...

For a while now I have been using GPS-Deploy. This program is meant to deploy 4 computer satellites in a close pattern. But I have come to wonder if there is a program that will deploy a far larger network of devices in a wider overlapping pattern so that they can cover a larger area without my having to deploy multiple four satellite systems.

What I was thinking about was a program that would deploy a single first satellite at it's start location. Then in a hexagonal pattern deploy additional satellites extending the network. That way I could send up one turtle with a stack of computers and wireless modems and it would cover a much larger area.

Any thoughts on programs that do this?

maybe i dont think thats possible without making the whole gps system for each single "satelite"
because if a turtle wants to get its position 64 blocks away from 1 gps computer (single one)
and is about 128 blocks away from another gps computer, then it would only be able to reach the first GPS computer, because the second is too far away…


But.. it would also be possible.. if your question should be asked then, i think you could make 1 full gps system, in the center of the other "four" clients. then make the clients receive the gps coordinates for their position, and then send the distances away from the turtle, to the gps system.

i dont know if that is possible, but maybe it is.. Try it out :D/>

I would love to try it out but I think it would take some one better then I. I barely know how to use the attack command at this juncture…heh.

Hexagonal isn't necessarily the best pattern. It's tricky to code for. I use a system that sets up GPS clusters on a 372-meter grid. This allows full coverage at bedrock, and a fifth, central computer in each cluster can act as a rednet relaying station.