Monday, July 28, 2008

Home Made GPS Location Beamer

Mobility seems to be the new buzz. All the new smart phones coming out have some sort of location awareness built-in either through cell triangulation or through GPS.

There are a bunch of companies working on location based social networks. Loopt [www.loopt.com] is one of them, the most well know i.e. There are a bunch more Plazes [http://plazes.com/], Zkout [www.zkout.com] .... All of them are doing similar and exciting stuff.

To create a location based social recommendation engine is a very hard problem to solve but to post your GPS coordinates on the web very easy!!!!

With the help of YUI [http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/], Moto Q9c, C#, and AppEngine [http://code.google.com/appengine/] / Fire Eagle [http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/] I have put up this page where anyone can track my whereabouts [Only works on Firefox :=)].

http://otb.appspot.com/render/tomaranand


This was a fun exercise. Will add more stuff (friend locator, location based services ... ) to it slowly ..... very slowly :)