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Sunday, February 19, 2012

Embedded Wayfinding and Navigation Support

02/19/12 #235 0m
Navigation through unfamiliar spaces is a familiar challenge, and we have all sorts of standards and devices to support wayfinding in an urban environment. From The Atlantic Cities, this way-cool manhole cover from Seoul, South Korea:



How cool would that be, riding through an unfamiliar city and the manhole covers are embedded navigation?

1 comment:

  1. Except that, as a cyclist in rainy London, I've come to regard manhole covers as miniature anti-personnel mines, waiting to send the bike flying if crossed the wrong way...
    http://invisiblevisibleman.blogspot.com/

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