I’m in the market for a Bluetooth GPS.
The usage in mind is giving positioning info out to my phone, which in turns relays it to those location services websites. There’s lots out there, and they all seem to be in web2.0 style invite only beta.
Yahoo have a service called Fire Eagle (named after Fire Eagle Danger day, ala Zefrank.com). It doesn’t really have a UI persay, but only a permissions system. Your location goes in, and then you control the granularity at which applications can read your location. You might let your home automation system know your exact co-ordinates and street address, while only letting facebook know that you’re in New Zealand.
Another location service is Brightkite. It’s much like twitter, with a stream of updates from your friends - but with locations and photos added. You check into a location on bright kite. I have heaps of bright kite invites if anyone wants some. Brightkite will update fireeagle, as well as updating twitter.
So, bluetooth GPS! Ideally i don’t want to update this myself, cos i’m lazy, and technology ought to do this for me. Provided i’m outside, got a good line of sight to them satelites above me, a gps unit can be streaming my location into my phone and out to these services.
Thus I ask for recommendations. I like the logging versions, so i can pull off the logs when i get home. I really really like the idea of a solar powered gps. It can log the entire trip from the back of my backpack, and i’ll read it off when i get top a laptop.
recommendations anyone?
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I have this one: http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.8840
It does not do logging, but the battery lasts a fair while so if you can leave it connected to your phone that is fine. Let me know if you want to borrow mine to try it out.
Yes please! can i steal it from you sometime this week?
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