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YouTube for the road. Work out your journey using an online routeplanner and upload details of the routeplanner trip plus a video of you making the journey. This can then be spliced into stages by time for the stages of your trip. Advertising space is then sold adjacent to the video as it plays, to pay for the service. To see any trip, the system splices the relevant videos together using the stages of each and the routeplanner waypoints. The possibilities for a virtual 'how to get there' are endless. Not only that, but you could see your journey in the daytime. Popular trips could be voted on and be used on tourist sites. Like Amazon"s address photos, but even better! Shops and restaurants en-route could buy advertising when you get near them in the video. See real landmarks and run a virutal trip through first rather than looking at a flat map! Businesses could post video directions on their site! See how to get to real estate for sale! See the world from your PC!

I thought of this idea when I was...

When we were on Skye recently, we shot a video from the car, and it"s really interesting playing it back. To minimise shake, you need a camcorder with anti-shake correction and film on a wide angle lens (that way you also get more scenery to look at). The single track roads with sheep on them might be an eyeopener to tourists.


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Aidan
Aidan Posted: July 31, 2006, 11:15 am

I'm guessing that Google will do this real soon, considering that Maps+Earth+Sketchup will enable this quite quickly.

In fact, you'd probably end up licensing similar technologies to do the job. Google will probably get there first though.

Lal
Lal Posted: August 23, 2006, 6:19 pm

Doesn't A9 offer some of this as well (only in the major US cities and presume it will take a long time 2 scale out)
It doesn't have any "ads" that I know of but I'm sure they have thought about this as well.
On the AD front I'm sure Garmin and the other drive-by-gps vendors will want 2 hope on that bandwagon as well (if they can)

I belive MS have something on their local site as well (maybe in their research lab as well)- have seen a demo somewhere

Google Earth is likely the best bet 2 offer something along thos e lines and they know the ad space quite well. I believe they will be offering more 'local' ad space via their WiFI build-out (SF) etc.

Good idea - just hard 2 implement (gps, mapping, buildings, occiupants). Some movement in the mobile/cell space via LBS etc.. but not offering 'visual' ads just "local" sponsered ads. Also some rumblings from a few of the "free" wifi products (hotspots) as well. Not sure how they will all have a viable business model.

saigon
saigon Posted: July 29, 2007, 2:55 am

wow!

vanhees
vanhees Posted: August 2, 2007, 5:28 am

wow indeed
Tommy

cristimanole
cristimanole Posted: August 3, 2007, 7:26 am

nice

DaveK
DaveK Posted: August 3, 2007, 11:12 am

have you seen stretview on googlemaps yet? it's similar but with stills.

I like the idea, but how can you tell where to splice the video? unless every frame or 5 second segment for instance is geocoded then you have no way of knowing where a segment of video relates to.
You would need video from a journey in both directions (for 2 way roads)
it would be difficult to be representative of traffic levels e.g. a video taken at 8AM on a motorway would be very different to a video taken on the same stretch of motorway at 8PM

Dutch_Vincent
Dutch_Vincent Posted: August 3, 2007, 2:30 pm

Great idea, but I think Google will soon start offering something like this. For more inspiration, take a look at http://www.summerrideshare.com.

emoore
emoore Posted: August 4, 2007, 10:27 pm

Solid idea

If you can bring it to market at a rapid pace you may have a chance. They key would be while development is happening you quickly need to establish who you are and a unique value proposition or niche if you will to really give you the social networking distinction.

PhilipH
PhilipH Posted: August 6, 2007, 4:24 pm

How are you going to generate all of the videos? We're talking a LOT of mileage to cover the whole of a city, let alone a country, then there's all the video editing, uploading, storage space...

Brenden
Brenden Posted: August 6, 2007, 5:24 pm

Google just did this

Google street views

fossiloflife
fossiloflife Posted: August 7, 2007, 8:09 am

am waiting! tht is if u work faster than google

 

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