Friday, April 11. 2008

Mapping App Just for College Campuses

Campus Destinations now hosts maps of 8 college campuses and plans to add more in the coming months. The difference between its maps and those from your favorite Web mapping portal?

- no need for an address, just the name of the building/area of your destination
- pedestrian and bus routing (no cars)
- the number of paces to get to the destination
- information on campus buildings
- restaurant reviews
- optional for fee card to get discounts on local eateries

The about us shows how geeky the folks behind the app are: "Campus Destinations mission is to save students time and money by eliminating inefficient ways of allocating their schedule and funds and creating an interactive portal that enables them to profit from the correction of this externality.

A quick look at the directions tab for Duke (not all listed universities have maps/directions yet) yields these issues:

- odd directions like "Proceed straight under the Kilgo archway and follow inner Kilgo sidewalk 83 feet 32 - 38 paces" (perhaps that makes sense to folks on campus; not sure about a visitor)
- ugly maps with no labels (I'd like to know the names of the buildings I pass)
- no way to print or save maps to a mobile device that I found

- AppScout

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I can print on their site? I think this is a great website even the dining / popular destinations already has helped me. I hope they expand to other universities quickly - so it'll help the rest of us!

#1 Nick on 2008-04-13 11:47 (Reply)

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