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New Topic Post Reply Add to Bookmarks Posts: New posts 24 hours Hot Top 20 Account: Inbox / PM Login Register   Help Search Author Social GPS axxxr Joined: Mar 21, 2003 Posts: > 500 From: Londinium PM, WWW Posted: 2005-05-02 00:11 Via: social-GPS When Rebecca Anema goes snowboarding with her friends she sometimes looses sight of them. So she decided to make a social GPS to see where she is and where friends are in relation to the mountains. The system combines a GPS map (altitude, longitude) with an x,y map (trail map, street address) and a social map (where friends are). The J2ME application runs on GPS enabled phones. It communicates with the GPS to find out your location and sends the data to the database. It also checks who your buddies are and displays their location on your phone screen.The system is useful anywhere people travel in a group. [addsig] Jim Joined: Jan 20, 2002 Posts: > 500 From: Belgium PM Posted: 2005-05-02 00:16 Hmmm it would have been better a triangulation from the tower signals as it would be 100% compatible with all phones ... but yeah the idea is very good and might be usefull, only problem is the gps. Access the forum with a mobile phone via esato.mobi New Topic Reply