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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Considering Something Ideal

When you consider something "ideal", you lose the opportunity to improve it.
by: Shoji Shiba (b. 1933)
Japanese academic and author.

ProximityCast is not "ideal" yet. If you know of a location based service that is, please leave a comment of how I can look at it and why you think it is ideal.


ProximityCast does meet its basic goals even at this stage:

  • Location based service where users can add content and correct content for everyone's benefit.
    • Try doing that with the Points of Interest in your GPS


  • Provide a quality picture so you know what your destination looks like before you get there.

  • Provide location's Latitude and Longitude on the picture.
    • Once again, this acts as the Photographer's certification that if you arrive at the coordinate location you will see what is in the picture. Try doing that with a Street Address in a Location Based Service; sometimes they get you there, sometimes they don't.



ProximityCast is following the Wikipedia model now as in relying on user's input. Anyone have any tips for me as to how to get more users to input pictures?

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