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GPS (Global Positioning System)
Allows you to share your location in real time and locate your friends using smartphones and GPS
• mobile application installed on your phone or PDA and take it with you on a trip
• Information about your position is sent automatically to Buddyway server.
• automatically detect when you take a break and we mark it on the map.
• Take a look at our example: http://www.buddyway.com/trip/buddie/trip-to-work/
• You can always make it inaccessible to public with a singe click.
• You can share each of your trips with your friends.
• With a single click you can make your trip visible to others at special, unique page address.
•Each time the system detects you are entering this area, we will send you an e-mail.
SHARE YOUR TRIP WITH OTHERS
You can view your speed and altitude statistics on our automatically generated charts. Simply define a special notification area on the map.
Add Notes• Add personal note from a trip
with our dedicated mobile Buddyway application on your phone!
• Added notes are automatically assigned to your trip, to the place you are at!
What else can you do at
buddyway.com?
• send each of your trips to Google Earth. • Make use of its advanced features: – See your trip in 3D-mode– Relive your trip in the virtual world– Find other user's information about nearby
locations.
You can view an overview of your trip
• Use trackr! to let people know where you are and where you have been. All you need is the Internet, a GPS receiver and your mobile phone (or a mobile phone with an internal GPS receiver).
• Download the application to your mobile phone, create a friends list and let your friends know where you are.
• Java-based software • Woophoo client - to collect GPS data
using arbitrary mobile phones. – free and is able run on most
mobile phones and mobile devices which have internet connection and a built-in GPS receiver or an external bluetooth GPS device.
Functions of Woophoo
• The client sends geographical data to the Woophoo server, and provides handy functions like displaying maps, showing locations and messages of friends etc.
“TRACK”
• trace of our movements, a sequence of geographic locations in time. –Can be turned on
and off–Tracks can be
made public
Work CitedGps Web 2.0 Tools and Applications. (n.d.). Retrieved from Go2Web20.net Web
Applications Index: http://www.go2web20.net/#tag:gps