Wednesday 27 May 2009

Shopping centre directions as an iPhone app

Whenever I'm using an interactive map at a shopping centre I wonder whether the same thing could be turned into an iPhone application. The main reason is that although I can read maps, I have trouble remembering them, and one I could carry with me would work very well. Unfortunately I don't think you can just hook into the GPS system inside a shopping centre, so you'd need some other solution like "You Are Here" barcodes scattered around the centre that the phone can pick up with its camera.

Mokalus of Borg

PS - In the end, it would probably be easiest just to attach a printer to the interactive maps.
PPS - I'd be surprised if nobody has thought of this before.

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