REDMOND, Washington (Reuters) -- Lost in Seattle with nothing but a camera
phone? Just snap a picture of a nearby building, send off the photo to a database and soon you'll get back a map and information about where you are. ...
The map-search technology required Microsoft to get millions of street-level pictures of Seattle's buildings and landmarks. Those pictures were added to a database and indexed by distinguishing features that can be cross referenced to pictures sent in by users.
Uhhmm ... wouldn't a GPS thing in the phone work just as well? And not require millions of pictures to be taken?
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