I have heard (but not seen yet) that you have an indoor tour guide
that runs on an Apple MessagePad and tablet PC and has a positioning system.
I have an idea for a product that I would like you to produce for me that
I could use to promote Atlanta tourism.
I'd like to see you take Cyberguide outside to enable a tour of Atlanta
using GPS and an interactive, scalable, rotatable vector map. I'd like the
system to be able to register where I am currently located and in what
direction I am heading. You can zoom in and out on the map with ease. If
you indicate a destination, Cyberguide will produce a recommended route of
how to get there from where you are currently located and scale the map to
include your current location and the destination on the same screen.
I'd like it to contain information about special places of interest, such
as museums or movie theatres, gas stations, etc. I'd also like the ability
to add interesting sites to the map and to be able to input information about
those sights. If it is a museum, for example, I'd like to be able to enter
the times it is opened. If it is a restaurant, I'd like to be able to
gives its opening times as well as some information on the kind of food
available and, if I've been there, a recommendation that will give me
advice later on about whether I would like to return.
At the end of the day, I'd like to see a trail of where I traveled during
the day. If I happen to have a digital camera with me, I'd like to
associate
pictures of my day in Atlanta and attach them to the trail of where I traveled.
If I could then take that history of where I had been, what I did and what I
saw, I'd like to have Cyberguide generate a Web-browsable travel diary of
my day's journey, complete with map.
I have some pointers to map databases that cover the Atlanta area. I might
even know where you can find information on current sites of interest,
though I suspect a good deal of it is on the Web and should be accessed
directly from there on demand. Ideally, this whole package would be about
the size of a travel guide. I've seen the Apple MessagePad and that would
be a great size for this travel companion Cyberguide. But I'm willing to
see this run on something a little bigger if I can see it sooner rather
than later.
Please get in touch with me to discuss this proposal.
Kirk Pennywitt
GTRI
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Kirk Pennywitt Georgia Tech Research Institute
kirk.pennywitt@gtri.gatech.edu 347 Ferst Drive, ERB 106
Phone: 404-894-5248 Atlanta, GA 30332
FAX: 404-894-9081