4. The system of claim 1 , the conversion component receives the request as a text entry or a speech entry, or combinations thereof.
1. A system that facilitates describing a location with reference to one or more landmarks, comprising: a conversion component that receives a request for a target location and converts the request to a corresponding spatial coordinate; a selection module that chooses a landmark from a plurality of landmarks based at least in part on a user familiarity, the user familiarity being determined by comparing information from a user profile database and information from a landmark database; an analyzer component that evaluates the spatial coordinate and provides a description that contains the landmark; and a rendering component that communicates the description in response to the received request.