#gps (25 links)
- Maps to GPX mapstogpx.com
This tool accepts a link to pre-made Google Directions and converts them to a GPX file. This file can be uploaded and used in sat-nav and GPS units.
- Loopie route loopieroute.com
- Pinpoint by Greg Milner review – how is GPS changing our world? theguardian.com
We have all had the experience of getting lost while being informed of precisely where we are.Photograph: Alamy I n early 2008, for quixotic reasons that…
- KrazyDad » Blog Archive » Mayor of the North Pole krazydad.com
Last Sunday, while checking into the Hill Street Cafe in Burbank using the foursquare iPhone app, I idly wondered, “Can I become the mayor of the North Pole?” So I tried checking into a nearby 7-Eleven. It worked. I tried the Griffith Observatory about 5 miles away. It worked. I tried Disneyland, which is about an hour away. It didn’t work, but I now had an afternoon hacking project.
- trails - Intuitive GPS tracking on the iPhone trails.lamouroux.de
Via headlessness.
An online role playing game that places the virtual world on top of the real world using the GPS inside your phone. Attack, chat and interact with your friends and anyone else around you.
- Exporting the past into the future, or, “The Possibility Jelly lives on the hypersurface of the present” « Magical Nihilism magicalnihilism.wordpress.com
"My attitude to most Location-Based Services [...] has been hardened by sitting through umpty-nine presentations by the white-men-in-chinos who maintain a fortune can be made by the first company to reliably send a passer-by a voucher for a cheap coffee as they drift past *bucks." This post is not that.
- YouTube - Wikitude AR Travel Guide uk.youtube.com
Search landmarks in your surroundings and view them on a map, list, and on an Augmented Reality (AR) camera view: What you see is an annotated landscape, mountain names, landmark descriptions, and interesting stories.
- PhotoLocatr: Geotag Photos Taken With Any Digital Camera photolocatr.webopticon.com
Been wanting something like this for ages. Now all I need is an iPhone.
- Google's Android Gets Game - Forbes.com forbes.com
"The [service] attracting the most buzz is "WiFi Army," a first-person shooter game currently in beta. Like a mash-up of laser tag and the parlor game Assassin, participants meet on the street (using Google Maps) and "shoot" each other with their phone cameras."
- Nokia To Debut Mobile Lifestreaming App - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
For users of Nokia phones, though, a new app will soon be revealed that does exactly what we always dreamed a mobile lifestreaming app should: geotag your media and upload it to the web.
A GPS-based activity tracker that runs on Nokia smartphones. Information such as speed, distance and time are automatically stored in your training diary, and on this site you can store and share your workouts and routes.
- 3dtracking free.3dtracking.net
Monitor the movements of a live vehicle/person or to display a previous route that's been traveled. The vehicle/person's path is displayed as a line on either Google Earth or Google Maps with details of the speed at each point along the route.
- Location Technologies Primer techcrunch.com
Being location aware is the single most important feature in a mobile device that otherwise suffers in comparison with desktop and laptop Internet devices
- i am near iamnear.net
It's really simple. You tell Fire Eagle your location, and we tell you stuff that's near it.
- Google Mobile Maps PinPoints Your Location Without GPS techcrunch.com
"Today, [Google] updated its mobile maps to pinpoint your locations by triangulating between cell towers". Hurrah! Results suck for me, though.
Displays maps from Google Maps, Yahoo! Maps, Windows Live Local (MSN Virtual Earth), Ask.com, Open Street Map and other sources on Java J2ME-enabled mobile phones, PDAs and other devices.
- twibble - a location aware twitter client for smartphones :: DAS ZENTRALORGAN das-zentralorgan.de
A mobile twitter client application for the Nokia N95. In addition to some basic twitter functionality it can make use of the built-in GPS of the N95 to add your current position to a tweet.