It’s Friday, so let’s talk about something besides Autodesk Forge.
Much like Michael Keaton’s character in Night Shift, I am sometimes an idea guy. The problem is that most of my ideas fall in the “Feed mayonnaise to tuna fish.” category. Here’s another one.
Google Maps is a wonderful thing. You can enter an address and see it on a map. You can also enter a starting location and get driving directions to that address. And the best part is that Google Maps shows you multiple routes and allow you to minimize time or avoid toll roads. It’s so useful that we often wonder how we ever got anywhere without it.
But what if there was an alternative to entering an address? What if you could enter “I’d like to have an adventure,” and instead of proving an optimal route or one that bypasses toll booths, it gave you “the scenic route” with suggestions as to where to stop. For example, you could give it a radius of 100 miles, and starting at your current location, it could even pick the…