Mobile mapping news: MoloTwit, FONFinder
Some more mobile mapping news:
- Mologogo, a web service that already lets you use a GPS enabled mobile phone to update your position on Google Earth and Maps, is now also adopting the Twitter "protocol" for sending position updates via SMS. Here's how to use it. (Via Make)
- FON is a "social" wifi service that's popular in many countries — if you share your own wifi, you get to use others' when you travel. This makes it a tempting service for users of mobile phones like the Nokia N80 and N95, which have wifi access. The web browsers on these phones are not ideal for the complicated FON Map, however, which is why Rainer Simon is working on FONFinder. As Rainer writes on his blog, it's almost finished. When he's done, you'll be able to submit an address and get the nearest hotspots delivered to you on a map. Nice idea.
And in the not-too-far-off future, I'm sure, you'll be able to mash up Mologogo with FONFinder so you don't even have to submit an address. Just ping FONFinder with MoloTwit and get hotspots back... and perhaps anything else nearby you need.
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Sports Tracker Official Application
"If you own a N95 one of the first things you should do is download the recently released free application 'Sports Tracker' from Nokia. Sports Tracker is aimed at the sports or general user on foot or cycling and more importantly it provides full route tracking with the ability to upload to Google Earth."
http://research.nokia.com/research/projects/SportsTracker/
mapperz
http://mapperz.blogspot.com/
Posted by: mapperz at 13:19 UTC, April 16, 2007
Hi! Thanks for getting the word out about FONFinder! For those who are interested in trying it out: it's now live at fonfinder.mobi. Still very alpha though ;-)
Regards,
Rainer
Posted by: Rainer at 7:27 UTC, April 27, 2007
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