TRN reports that “researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are looking to incorporate landmarks into automatically-generated directions using software that models the geographical relationships between spaces and their functions.The Location Awareness Information Representation software,dubbed Lair,can be used to represent a person’s location,what that person is near,and what a person can do at those nearby places.The directions are “similar to those a person would give — [they] use landmarks to identify places to turn,” said Gary Look, a researcher at MIT”.
Software gives descriptive directions