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While I don't disagree with you, and felt the blog post came across kind of whiny (cultural difference, perhaps), you aren't really responding to his point. He
by endtime 17y ago
While I don't disagree with you, and felt the blog post came across kind of whiny (cultural difference, perhaps), you aren't really responding to his point. He's not sad that he has to compete with Google. He's sad that Google's taking credit for thinking of implementing landmark-based navigation, and is claiming that he or his team met with Google reps a while and that at the time they praised his idea as innovative.
- apinstein 17y agoFair enough, and I didn't talk about the "idea stealing" too much. But again I have to say that it's pretty obvious thing to do. Even if the GMaps guys were heads-down and no one at Google had thought of it (which I doubt), clearly tens of thousands of people have thought "why can't map directions say turn at gas station X instead of turn at street X". As someone who lives in an area with lots of missing street signs, I know I thought about that years ago, and I imagine tens of thousands of others have as well.
- 1010011010 17y agoI've joked about maps and GPSes giving "country directions" for years now. "Turn left where the old store used to be and drive on until you get to where the tornado hit" kind of stuff. It's landmark-based navigation, albeit a jokey one. In other words, not really a new idea.
- kikibobo69 17y agoI'd call it a stretch to say these guys invented it. There is quite a bit of literature on this technique, e.g. http://research.nokia.com/files/hile_landmark_mum08.pdf http://research.nokia.com/files/hile_landmark_mum08.pdf