Yahoo and mapquest maps are great, but they only give you a bird's eye view map. In the directions, they list each turn you make.

It would be nice to have a photo of each turn, exactly as you would see it when you are driving, in the directions. They could photoshop in a big arrow pointing the correct direction.

At first they could simply do the highways and major intersections of large cities, and add more as they go on.
-- lawpoop, Aug 19 2003

Turn On A Party http://www.elidor.f...rve.co.uk/party.htm
Par-tay [DeathNinja, Oct 04 2004]

Video Route http://www.halfbake.../idea/Video_20Route
half baked by [neilp] [hazel, Oct 04 2004]

Raw data: http://www.pagesjaunes.fr/rc.cgi?lang=en
photos of each business address and views down the street in 10 cities in France. [beauxeault, Oct 04 2004]

already half-baked
-- hazel, Aug 19 2003


Yeah, there's some interesting comments there.

I think the video route is too much, but still images are just the right size and the right amount of information.
-- lawpoop, Aug 19 2003


These are called landmark systems and there is a lot of research giong on about them both for navigating physical and virtual spaces.
-- bristolz, Aug 19 2003



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