Many of you may have heard of income or that you are even already playing at augmented reality game on your Android phones or tablets. The Google project from the beginning has been covered with a halo of mystery that had to do with the distribution system itself, with the low level of self-advertising that they have made of it and with the dynamics of the game itself. Well, it could be that among all the players there are helping Google build a better walking route database to launch a pedestrian navigation mode that competes with Nokia's.
I read the idea in The Free Android where one of its editors has rescued a comment from a forum about Android in reddit.com. The author of the comment, a certain Shaper_pmp, explained this theory with these arguments.
He invited us to remember other projects such as incident responder from Google that actually served to improve your speech recognition for voice searches. The project also quotes us Recaptcha that gave free captchas and that provided solutions to the words that Google Books did not recognize in the digitization process.
Attending to Ingress and its game dynamics, it reminds us of what is actually asked of us. That we go walking with GPS and 3G on from one place to another in our city. With this we charge energy to use for new missions in portals. These portals are usually sites of artistic, cultural, social or historical interest. emblematic outdoor spaces, in which you receive prizes. We also need camera and accelerometer so that collect images and give information about the speed at which you move.
To do these tours we will use pedestrian routes and paths which is precisely what Google Maps lacks and then we have to take photos.
In short, we are giving Google information on walking routes in terms of the best itinerary and time and we also give you geolocated photos of the spaces.
And it is that everything makes a lot of sense as it explains it. The editor of The Free Android also suggests that we see the requirements we have to have to play Ingress. Once read it is quite clear. With this augmented reality game We helped Google create a walking route navigation tool. It is great in the approach although surely some users consider that their privacy is in some way at risk by telling Google where we are, where we are not moving, at what speed. But if you think about it, what is it that you don't tell Google? What do you think?