Get from Here to There using Photos

Mar 30th, 2006 | By Sue | Category: Gadgets, Hardware, archive

ShinyShiny, a tech gadget blog especially for girls, posted a review of the new Navman icn720 and 750 GPS in-car navigation systems that let you use photos to navigate to places. The unit has a built-in camera, so you just snap a picture of the IKEA store, your favorite restaurant, or whatever, and the photo is tagged with coordinates. Then, next time you want to go, you just bring up the photo and the Navman will get you there. Of course, it’s yet another cool device that we probably won’t get here in the US, at least not for awhile.

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  1. ecos April 1st, 2006 8:00 am

    Cool post. I thought it was interesting that ESRI is incorporating the directions-by-picture-method via Flickr. Check out http://www.flickr.com/photos/esri/

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