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Photo Route

Submitted by: DennisJ
Created: Feb 3, 2007, 11:17 am

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For motorists who cant read maps well the Photo Route is a route finder that makes it easy to find your way on unfamiliar roads. Unlike Google Earth and the others our product gives you a drivers-eye view of the route before you travel.

The Idea

Most of us have used the various route planning sites on the web. They can give you a map and an itinerary for your trip, but sometimes that isn't enough for you find your way around unfamiliar territory. It also rather dull. [I]It would be really useful to see the actual route before you set off, so you can recognize the landmarks, junctions etc when you see them. It would also help with the planning of stops on the route if you could see the interesting places that are on the way.[/I] This would be in the form of photos, movies, and text descriptions of the route, supplied by users, mashed up with mapping and routing services like Google Earth. [B]*Revenue*[/B] would come from product placement, that is we would take content supplied by advertisers and integrate it into the route data. So for example, pictures of the appropriate McDonalds restaurants would be displayed in the correct positions on the route.

I thought of this idea when I was...

in the car. I started to daydream about putting a camcorder on the dash and sharing the movies on the web, so everyone could see what driving here (Devon) was like. What might seem like normal, uninteresting trip to me could be useful and interesting for someone else on the other side of the world. Then I got to wondering if there were any cameras with built-in GPS and networking. I could put one of these in the car and set it to automatically capture my journeys and upload them to the web. It would be like a low-altitude Google Earth, with ultra-high resolution. No satellites required!

Comments Posted

blairio Posted: February 5, 2007, 3:03 pm

It could use photos from flickr that users have been tagged with geodata to find photos of the route.

generic_idea_machine Posted: March 3, 2007, 5:12 pm

gps is becoming cheapers and being embedded in the new cellphones

Brenden Posted: March 4, 2007, 4:32 pm

I am a landmark person two... but this system would cost SOOOO much to make and would be missing many major land marks in small or med towns.

DennisJ Posted: June 4, 2007, 9:51 am

Its seems that Google thinks it worth doing, with Street View.

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