Virtual Earth Helps Vodafone’s Pocket Life to Track Your Friends

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Since December last year, download of Pocket Life (beta release) for Vodaphone is available. Pocket Life could be the counterpart of Google Latitude. It is another GPS where you can locate friends and other contacts through your mobile phone and computer.

With this new mobile and web service, all users will enjoy a seamless and integrated experience of communication, location-based services, satellite and street mapping, and social networking. This system is designed to allow users interact and communicate in many ways that are not possible before.

Google Latitude - The GPS That Tracks People

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On February 4, 2009, Google launched a new system called Google Latitude. This latest tool is designed to allow users track the whereabouts of their friends or find their way when they get lost, or you just want to keep tabs on the places that all your friends haunt. If you’re going to use the device this way, don’t be surprised when somebody accused you of stalking. Only a stalker would behave like a ‘tracker.’ Of course, it would be understandable if you got a bit attached to your mobile phone while still in the learning stage of using the mobile interface for Google Latitude.

Is Being Streetwise Really Wise?

Filed under: 3D Satellite Imagery, Satellite maps, gps

After showing off detailed satellite maps, companies are now focusing their attention on collecting 360-degree images of streets. Google, Microsoft, and Earthmine are competing with each other as they offer web-based navigation service to people who want to travel and to reach their destination without getting lost. These 3-D environments are also helpful to government agencies and real estate agents. Accurate visual images of properties can lead to near-accurate tax assessments, and can also save on-site tripping to see the for-sale properties and the surrounding neighborhoods in actual detail.

Transformed GPS for Off Road Travelers

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The following are very good news for off road travelers and hiking enthusiasts. AccuTerra maps are made possible and commercially available to all map users by the combined effort of Magellan, one of the fast-growing GPS brands, and Intermap Technologies, a well-known creator of digital maps.

The AccuTerra maps are now accessed by handheld GPS, particularly Magellan Triton and eXplorist. These are enhanced maps that give users freedom to explore places where there are no streets. Outdoor recreationists can find locations of off-road terrains, trails, camping grounds, service facilities, and famous landmarks such as national forest, state parks, wilderness areas, etcetera. Private properties are also shown in most areas in the U.S. Maps of 48 states and Hawaii are downloadable from the Magellan website.

GPS, GPS Oh What Would I Do Without You?

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Remember back in the day when you had to actually use paper maps to find things?  Or call a place and have them tell you how to get there?  Barely.  It seems like a million years ago.  But it’s really only been several years.

When my dad first got a GPS navigation system for his car I remember thinking how ridiculous and extravagant that was.  Not to mention expensive.  Fast forward…oh…8 years or so.  Google Maps, Google Earth, NASA Worldwind, Microsoft Virtual Earth, iPods with Google maps, portable GPS units for bicycles, motorcycles etc.  Now it seems almost unfathomable not to have some sort of device with GPS capabilities.