Take the scenic route

[qwantz]

Comments

[e_monk]

I don't think I've ever heard that verb use of "grief". Did you mean to write "grift"? Still "to grief" in the sense of "to cause grief to" is a pretty cool construction. Maybe I'll start using it.

[qwantz]

Yeah, it's used in gaming a lot, where "griefers" "grief" people.

[thebigbadbutch]

Yeah but then all the soccer moms and NASCAR dads with their minivans will take the scenic route as perscribed by GPS. Soon the Starbucks and Gap Outlets will start lining the sides of scenic freeways which will reduce the sceniciness.

[qwantz]

Man, I hadn't thought of that! I suppose then photos would drop and scenic routes would shift.

Or, you know, cities could enforce their signage bylaws and not let people put signs up everywhere. But I suspect they won't and I am just making work for the (excellent) http://illegalsigns.ca/

[thebigbadbutch]

quantum scenicness

[halfassured]

This post gives me an idea for a blog called "Prior Art" where every post is just some random idea that you think might be patented someday.

[c_duck]

Your idea for a blog which has posts about ideas which already exists, already exists:

http://www.halfbakery.com/ (Or near as dammit.)

[koyetay]

"Once everyone starts buying cameras with GPSs in them"

This seems like a big assumption. I can't afford an iPhone and this is really the first I've heard of geotagging. Is there a big call for GPS-synchronized cameras? Though actually, if I was some kind of photojournalist, that'd be pretty bitchin...

This sounds like it would mostly be a feature in high-end cameras. I wonder if there's enough of a geographically disperse population base that can afford such tech. Without a large base of people, I would think the utility of such software would be pretty heavily compromised.

It sounds like a great idea, but the market would need to offer low-end camaras with geotagging functionality, affordable by a large number of people.

[pedersencato]

My thought when I read this was that when a certain path has more photos, more people are going to be directed along that route; more people specifically following a path for it scenicness means more people taking photos along it as well, adding more photos to the cloud, thus influencing more people to take that path... after a while, anyone choosing the scenic road in an area will be directed to this one road.

[thestormsurfer]

This is the best response.