In my last post I introduced the project Point’N’Seek  and in this post I present the latest added functionality which I hinted at in my last blog of allowing users to augment the POI of interest with their own location and direction aware photographs. The following video shows this in operation and what is  particularly novel comes at the end when user can spatially search the photographs of a particular POI to obtain one from a specific direction.  The idea is that this could be used to make POI easier to find by pedestrians as the photograph they see would be from the direction the will be approaching it from. The example in the video is a photo of Infolab21 taken from a position NW of the buildingAn added bonus is that a database of such photographs could perhaps be stitched together to create a king of user generated Streetview perhaps using something like the Microsofts Photosyth image processing.

In the next stage of development we are planning to switch to Navteq Maps to allow us to fully explore orientation. Any other suggestions gratefully received.