gps (global positioning system). allows you to share your location in real time and locate your...

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