Alex writes – My goal is to build a kind of a mobile tracker. There are many different use cases you can think of but one of the obvious is a device, that is able to report where it is. This device can be put in your car and it could trigger an alarm, if […]
This is nice – Google maps + the GPS feed from buses in Helsinki, Finland – [via] Link.
Jason @ Hackszine writes – Google launched the Street View feature in Google Maps today at the Where 2.0 conference. For select cities, you can now view street-level panoramic photography as you browse around a map location. It’s like being able to take a virtual driving tour of a city, right from your desk. There […]
Chris writes – This page describes the steps I went through in my project to connect a Garmin eTrex Summit GPS device to a Nikon D200 camera body in order to record location information in the EXIF data of images captured using the setup. While this procedure worked fine for me, I do not take […]
If you use twitter (and happen to have a compatible phone) you can automatically have your phone send where you’re physically at to twitter, this could be interesting for applications like our MAKE space balloon or DIY tracking — Link. Previous: DIY GPS tracking with Mologogo – Link. Use mologogo with Google Earth (tracking with […]
Raelx writes – If you have ever been in a Volkswagen New Beetle you might have noticed that the dash is deep enough to take a nap on. This makes the suction cup mount provided with the Nuvi pretty much useless. You would have to press your chest to the steering wheel to touch the […]
Brady over on Radar posted up about GeoRSS, a very simple to use OGC format that extends RSS by adding location data, can now be consumed via Google Maps and the Google maps API – here’s a blurb from Google… To start we now support GeoRSS as a data format for geographic content in Google […]
