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Is that innovation?

The notion of landmark-based direction is not innovative. Using publicly available data sources to cover India in algorithmically discoverable landmarks so that you can give them from two arbitrary points in the nation, that is innovative. (And hard.)

I couldn't even begin to describe a cost-effective way for an Internet startup to discover that my apartment is the second one on the right after you take the left at the statue of Buddah.




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