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