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geovisualization, mapmaking January 3rd, 2009
The MOBVIS project, a research initiative funded by the European Commission, turns an image taken from your cell phone into an interactive hyperlinked reality. The image recognition software pulls up a database that identifies features such as buildings, monuments and street furniture.
This project has the potential to provide very helpful tools for augmented reality with far-ranging applications. The utility of the user-selected porthole to reveal rich information about surroundings will create whole new possibilities for intelligent maps. What’s particularly intriguing is the device independence, that will likely go beyond cell phones to include a myriad of other applications.
The fact that we’re getting to the point where our richness of geospatial data will enable such future technologies is exciting. There’s a world of opportunities yet to be unlocked that trade off of geospatial data creation and technology development.
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