Meet NavPix and change the way you navigate forever
Satellite navigation pioneer Navman is introducing NavPix, a breakthrough technology which offers a unique and intuitive way to navigate to a destination using just images.

Satellite navigation pioneer Navman is introducing
NavPix™ , a breakthrough technology which offers a unique and intuitive way to navigate to a destination using just images. NavPix™ goes beyond just simplifying navigation: it introduces a whole new image-based approach to navigation that is easy to use and can be used anywhere, both in and out of the car. NavPix™ will initially be available on two new, state-of-the-art Navman portable navigation devices the iCN720 and iCN750, available in Europe from May 2006.

As simple as: Picture, Touch, Go.
Images are an obvious and unmistakeable way to identify a destination, says Prash Vadgama, president of Navman s Consumer Navigation Group. For example, if we wanted to enter the Eiffel Tower as a destination within a current navigation device, how many of us would know the actual address ? Not many, but we all know what it looks like. With NavPix™ , you simply view the NavPix™ images on your Navman, touch the NavPix™ you want to select, and go. Your Navman device will automatically calculate the best route to your destination without entering any complicated, alphanumeric addresses.
Each NavPix™ image has the exact geographical location of where that picture was taken embedded in the image data. You then use that image as an alternative way to choose and set your destination in the Navman iCN700 series, adds Prash.

Click, Share, Download, Explore.
You can use the built-in camera on the iCN700 series to take a NavPix™ image of something that inspires or interests you, says Prash. It might be a location you ve stumbled upon by chance and want to return to. It could be a great restaurant, a scenic view or an amazing building or maybe something relevant to your professional life, such as a location for a photo shoot, a property for sale or a scene you need to record .

We tend to remember images better than we remember addresses. A NavPix™ image is therefore a much clearer way to find a location because it combines the easy identification of a location with accurate and precise geographical data. Take a NavPix™ image and your Navman device automatically assigns the longitude and latitude of the location, together with complete address and postcode information. You ll then always be able to navigate to that exact spot again by using the NavPix™ to set the destination on your Navman.

Once created, NavPix™ images can be uploaded and stored within a personalised, on-line album that can be created on the Navman website. The website will also have NavPix™ images of famous landmarks and interesting places to download, as well as on-line tools to create NavPix™ images from an address with a digital picture such as jpegs, by automatically assigning the complete longitude and latitude information to the image to create a new NavPix™ .

"This is just the beginning of what you will be able to do with NavPix™", says Prash. When you ve taken and uploaded your own NavPix™ , you can share them with other NavPix™ creators and users from the Navman global community. Sharing NavPix™ images with friends or the Navman community will be easy and will open a world of opportunities for different users across the globe.

NavPix™ : Picture Yourself There.
Prash says: "The possibilities of NavPix™ are almost endless, for both leisure and professional users. This innovative technology marks a completely new approach to satellite navigation, one which will change the way people navigate in the future. In essence, NavPix™ is the beginning of a pioneering and exciting new process."