For GeoPointing to work right, you would also need an electronic compass
module in the phone.... Right? Cause accelerometers don't know which
direction your pointing and gps isn't probably accurate enough to derive
what you pointed at when you moved it maybe 2 or 3 feet during the
gesture.
With the compass module you would have
Gps location + orientation + direction means "what is that building?"
Then depending on the orientation you could have the phone limit
distance.. Say face up is 100 feet. Face left is in 500 feet. Face
down is 1 mile... Etc. Then have it return the name of the first known
object that is on the ray extending from your location in that direction
with in the defined distance.
/shrug
Now, pair the accelerometer w/ GPS and you have GeoPointing. "What is
that building over *there*?" Sure people do that already
(http://geovector.com/), but not on O/S platforms. ;)
--Tim
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