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Custom Point of Interest Technology on the Horizon for Real Estate
By Carl Martens | May 19, 2008
There are sites now starting to pop-up where you can download your Point of Interest (POIs) and import them into your GPS unit. For instace, the Department of Energy has created a Custom POI database for E85 gas stations. Defined by the U.S. Department of Energy as an alternative fuel, E85 is a blend of 85 percent ethanol and just 15 percent gasoline. You can also upload safety cameras or school zones and receive a warning if you are traveling too fast.
Pictured below are screenshots illustrating the proximity alert feature:
They are also starting to come out with beta software to do GPS tours…when you drive by a POI, it starts an MP3 with info on that POI.
Think about how this technolgoy could be used in real estate. IVR systems like VoicePad, could soon be replaced by a GPS recording! Your featured listings, a client’s gateway, etc. could become POIs downloadable from your website. When the POI is downloaded from the internet into your GPS advertising/information is also downloaded on a voice file with that POI.
Read more here.
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