Smarter Google Maps Would Add Movement and Templates for Tasks

This now makes a lot more sense w/Google Glass: Smarter Google Maps Would Add Movement and Templates for Tasks

Would you use an internet mapping system that could show you changes in distances to places that you’ve identified as you move around? How about one where specific templates could be created to show you information about locations to help you with tasks such as home hunting or school hunting or vacationing? Google explores those kinds of abilities in a new patent application titled Dynamic Exploration of Electronic Maps (US Patent Application 20080059205). The templates for different tasks could be created by Google or Google users or by both. The maps might use some technology like AJAX to update distances and other information on the fly. For a task like house hunting, the patent filing gives us the following example of some of the metrics that might be shown on the map, or next to the map: Demographic, psychographic, and/or other statistical data describing a population...

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