Finding Yourself With Photo Recognition

itchyfish writes "You are lost in a foreign city, you don't speak the language and you are late for your meeting. What do you do? Take out your cellphone, photograph the nearest building and press send. For a small fee, photo recognition software on a remote server works out precisely where you are, and sends back directions that will get you to your destination. Seems a little far fetched, but amazingly cool if it really works."

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Re:Why Bother?

[Ranma21]

Exactly. I'm in Tokyo too and this service and many others have been available for quite some time. There is actually a psuedo-GPS system that uses cell triangularisation or similar that gives your exact location on a map. Obviously some geek (can we all guess where he lives..hmmm?) is unaware that this stuff is more than available, but works well. Sheesh what a waste of time.