+user13371 Posted February 18, 2009 Posted February 18, 2009 NY Times on mobile computing: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/science/17map.html Are you ready to live in that world? Is your GPS-maker ready to compete there? Quote
+embra Posted February 18, 2009 Posted February 18, 2009 A few thoughts provoked by the article-- The maps aspect seems to have been going for a good while with GPS (note 3D-displays on street routers and satellite imagery overlays on some handhelds). I also thought of the guy who turned his car onto the railroad track (causing a train wreck) because his GPS told him to turn there. As someone said a good while ago, "The map is not the territory." The provision of one's position to others has shown up in some limited GPS venues (was it the Rhinos that did this?) but the cellphone networks' capabilities go to a whole 'nother level. That goes beyond my sense of privacy, which may be generationally different. I've seen to many sci-fi dysutopia flicks to want to risk going there. Thanks for the link, Lee. Quote
+Renegade Knight Posted February 18, 2009 Posted February 18, 2009 NY Times on mobile computing: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/17/science/17map.html Are you ready to live in that world? Is your GPS-maker ready to compete there? If they want to sell me the info & software great. If they want to lease it and keep their hooks into me all while mining my data...I'm not so sure. Quote
+qlenfg Posted February 18, 2009 Posted February 18, 2009 The coolest feature I've seen added to a GPS in a while is the sign / lane deal Navigon does on their units. It overlays a sign above the 3-D map showing you which lanes go where on interstate exits, splits, etc... The 3-D ghost image thing for showing buildings in a downtown area is pretty cool, but I can't see using it around here. Maybe if aliens abduct me and take me to the middle of Manhattan, I might appreciate it. I think some refinement on the POI algorithms where considerations like making a left across a busy street or finding a gas station on the same side of the highway that you are on would be a good start, especially as cities do away with the tall signage that used to show you where things were at from a distance. I'll take a good GPS over a GPS phone any day. Quote
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