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New applications for using sat nav on dedicated devices and on your mobile phone are being unveiled almost daily. The entrepreneurial idea is to have automatic interactive applications that perform the same basic way location sensitive advertising pop ups as you’re used to seeing on the internet. Your automatic vehicle navigation device knows where you are at any given time.

Software applications that connect to the Internet via your mobile phone and to your GPS device with a cable or via blue-tooth technology allow all sorts of interactive location based programs to assist you in navigation, identification of new places, returning to old favorites stored in memory and the discovery of alternate routes to familiar destinations. The new apps coming your way are unlimited in scope.

Sat nav can even be used to enunciate guided travel tours and show you real estate opportunities that may not have a conventional for sale sign on the front lawn. The next real innovation in this field will come easily once a standard for mapping data is established so that new applications will not be brand or device specific.

However the greed factor will probably stymie these advances for a while until new avenues of revenue sharing in the vehicle navigation field are designed and put into place. I then meantime there’s plenty of neat applications online to download and enjoy.