Dynamic sat-navs show promise for travel sector

Mobile services for travel are currently being talked about with as much frequency and gusto as dynamic packaging, circa 2005.

The mash-up of in-car sat-nav facilities with hotel information is also something which crops up from time to time.

So interesting to get an email from NDrive last week, boasting of a new sat-nav system which also uses aerial photography of key cities and locations to guide drivers to a destination.

Once again, it doesn't take an enormous leap of the imagination to see where this might go.

Destination content providers could quite easily add a feed into the system so a driver can find out more about a location and availability of services or products, such as hotels, using quality images rather than the current graphic-based and rather dull looking interfaces.


Kevin May, editor, Travolution

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Pocket Guide?

A report from the Bookseller says Dorling Kindersley has got together with Mobile Systems to enable its top 10 Eyewitness travel guides to be downloaded to mobile phones and other handheld devices.

The first 10 guides include London, Rome, Paris, Amsterdam, New York and Barcelona and users go to www.mobisystems.com to purchase the information.

The guides will be available on a number of mobile platforms, initially Symbian S60, with others including Windows Mobile, Smartphone and Blackberry, to follow.

Watch this space for more on how much it will cost and whether you can choose what you download.

Linda Fox, lead reporter, Travolution