Microsoft maps could soon include that most ingenious of travel smarts – cabbie’s knowledge. Microsoft researchers in Beijing are mining taxi driver smarts to create better driving directions. The researchers have analysed GPS data from 33,000 cabs in the city to find more efficient routes. “These factors are very subtle and difficult to incorporate into existing routing engines,” says Yu Zheng of Microsoft Research Asia. If his research pays off, we could see Bing Maps with a built-in London cabbie algorithm…
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