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Yahoo Testing "Beautiful" Travel Directions
- MIT Technology Review, Wednesday, July 9, 2014 11:53 AM
Rather than mapping out the most efficient travel directions, Yahoo Labs is working on a service that prioritizes the scenic value of particular paths. As the MIT Technology Review reports: “These guys have worked out how to measure the ‘beauty’ of specific locations within cities and then designed an algorithm that automatically chooses a route between two locations in a way that maximizes the beauty along it.”
