Hi Martin,
At 14:19 20-08-2016, martin_at_navacelle.net wrote:
>Maybe the path could be:
>
>1. User sends his current location using only words: street number
>and name, point of interest (tabagie, jumbo, fill in, ... )
>2. Service geocodes location and finds a list of nearest restaurants
>3. Service sends to user a list of places to eat and directions
>
>Implies to first geolocate every snack / restaurant / boutique /
>road, but this can be crowd sourced by the shops so that they can
>reach more clients by being in a database.
>
>This way no realtime lowfi GPS on the smartphone is needed. Works
>even during cyclone. Can also be sms only.
>
>Eventually User sends a picture of his surroudings so that machine
>learning creates a street view.
>
>Is your idea to help people find restaurants nearby ?
I was evaluating the functionality of a smartphone. I mentioned
restaurants as it was part of one of the tests which I carried
out. In doing so, I noticed that the results were of poor quality.
Thanks for suggesting a path. I prefer not to do (1) as some of that
information may be missing or it may be unstructured. Crowdsourcing
has not worked on the island. It is unlikely that I would be able to
do anything about that. I have done some research about (1)
previously; it was for a different purpose. Creating a street view
is an interesting idea. I am taking into account the local context;
I estimate that it would take several years to do that.
The idea is about making the phone useful. The interesting part is
that I am unable to do that at the moment. :-)
Regards,
S. Moonesamy
Received on Sun Aug 21 2016 - 12:55:39 PST