Its been shown that more often than men, women navigate by landmarks. I want to see a web-direction program that can actually describe turns and directions by naming landmarks.
If I were to give directions to my wife by street number and cardinal directions, likely she'd not get it easily. But if I say "turn left at the Quik trip", she's always okay. Seems to me that Mapquest and Googlemaps already know where everything is; can they write the software to actually name landmarks in the directions?
Probably could even make ad revenue from the naming of stores?
Even people that navigate with GPS or street numbers would appreciate that reassurance that they're turning at the right location with the easy recognition of a 'waypoint'. And it's easier to predict a future turn with a big grocery-store sign than it is looking for a little street-sign.
Has anyone done this? Whynot?
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Because A:somebody would have to go out and log exact details of the land marks, and process them into the appropriate databases. On things like GPS receivers, it would also take up memory space.B: They'd have to do it often, as landmarks get added, removed, or change hands/affiliations or appearance.
That would cost money, money that would have to add cost to a service or product.