Organic has been pretty busy with location based applications and various prototypes for our clients. As part of this process, we have spent considerable time with various applications, services and devices - both with GPS and without GPS.I recently learned about the "Blackberry Tracker" application and web site by Tech9 Computer Solutions which is built for use with the Blackberry 8800 (with GPS) platform. If you have a GPS enabled Blackberry, you are in luck and can experiment with this project.
Essentially, the project tracks your current locations and allows you to share them with friends. In addition, you can set up "Geofences" which will trigger alerts when your device (or perhaps a friends) breaks the perimeter of an area that you define.
Once your locations are tracked, you can view them on top of Google maps or Google earth. You can also save physical bookmarks of locations of interest, as well as tag various locations for future review.
Its just a matter of time before location based services start to show their potential, and while this project is still in development, it certainly is a good example of features to expect from the mobile future.
Check it out at www.blackberrytracker.com
Devheads should head over to their development wiki where you can get an API license and also take a look at some of their code.
Chad Stoller
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