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Widget Maps
coultonp | 04 July, 2008 16:51
This might be considered a bit lower tech than my usual fair but is a lot more accessible for the general public. As an aside from a presence based mobile social network project he is working on with me and Will (I will blog about it in future
) my MSc student Klen Copic Pucihar knocked up this very neat little WidSets Widget called Widget Maps that allows you to get your location position using an address search facility which then plots it on Google maps on your phone. The widget also allows you then to move the cursor to your exact location and get the corresponding latitude and longitude which you can share with your friends. The nice thing is that this will work on any J2ME phone supporting WidSets client Irrespective of having access to some form of positioning technology (sort of low tech my location).
BTW its currently available as a beta widget on the Widsets site so enjoy
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Re: Widget Maps
henit | 04/09/2008, 23:27
Hi everyone.
A few days ago, I was surfing the web and I found out a project that works over most mobile phones which lets you know where your friends are in real time and update your status in twitter. It´s called Dimdix.
On their website they say you don´t need a GPS system to detect your location. Does anyone know how this works?
I´m using a Motorola L7 and amazingly it detected my location.
I cannot stop thinking of all the things I could do with it.
If anyone wants to take a look you can go here
Thanks,
Regards,
Juan