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Lost? Let Microsoft find you with pictures
Microsoft wants to find you, you little lost puppy, and it's not by posting flyers on telephone poles. They want to help find you when you're lost with pictures that you take and send from your camera phone and, they've been out and about Seattle taking pictures of every foreseeable location to enable this new search technology. Microsoft showed off some 40 new technologies at the Microsoft Research TechFest last week, and one project team has been gathering millions of street level pictures in Seattle. The team has been testing out and building their map search technology that has the potential to change the mobile map searching world forever. As devices become more and more sophisticated, technologies are making the dream of searching on maps via mobile devices more of a reality.
The mobile map searching application is currently being tested out at Microsoft in its early stages, but will take a long time for the team to snap shots and create a database of all major areas in the U.S. in order to make it a viable application. When this is complete the map search technology is going to make for one application that we're not going to want to leave home without.
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Andrew Fong said 7:42PM on 3-12-2007
GPS is becoming more common in phones already ... why not just take that route instead of relying on a massive database of pictures?
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Jason F. said 3:20PM on 3-14-2007
I expect they're explicitly trying to find a way around the GPS route because the mobile carriers own the GPS / LBS on phones...
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