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A Car Navigation System That Takes Pictures

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the stealing-back-my-best-ideas dept.

Brandon Miniman writes "Navman has brought to market the first in-car navigation system with a built in camera, the iCN 750. The camera lets you take pictures of places you've been. Geographical coordinates are then assigned to each picture, so that you can bring up a gallery, and choose your destination by clicking on a picture." Add to this an always-on, all-sides video camera to document that it was the minivan that strayed into your lane, and it'll be even better.

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  1. Re:finally, more than a gimmick by winnabago · · Score: 3, Informative
    Do you know about Amazon's city imaging project? I use this all the time to find businesses on major streets. It's a work in progress, but seems to be easily scalable.


    And for cool factor, I can find my house.

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  2. Re:First it was cell phones. . . by boingo82 · · Score: 2, Informative
    If you can't find your way around using a map, having a GPS system in your car, now with new and flashy pictures!, isn't going to help.

    Um, no. You can program the GPS, and have it actually talk you through directions while you're driving. If you're a single person on a trip by yourself, you have to stop the car everytime you need to reference the map.

    Also, a GPS unit will tell you when you've gotten off course. Last time my husband and I went map-traveling, we ended up over 80 miles in the opposite direction of our destination because we missed a turn. A GPS would have informed us of the missed turn less than 10 seconds later.

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  3. Re:Just what I need... by O.W.M · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not built in, but the Nikon D200 can be hooked up to a GPS reciever and let the images be tagged with GPS data.