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Identifying Landmarks Using GPS Phones

posted by Satri on Tuesday August 08, @01:53PM        Permalink  Trackback URI  Slashdotthis  Diggthis  Del.icio.us
from the closer-to-one-tool-to-rule-them dept.

The Geospatial Semantic Web Blog describes iPointer, a device to identify landmarks using GPS phones. From the blog: "Once the user information is arrived at the remote server, the server uses various algorithms to approximate the exact physical thing that the user is interested. There is a predefined database of physical things that the server has knowledge about." This service sounds very similar to this previous story.

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• Phones using very small digital compass?

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  by Satri (3) on Wednesday August 09, @08:48AM (#889)
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