Efficasoft GPS Utilities shows all your GPS information such as co-ordinates, altitude, current speed, course and the statistics of satellites at a glance. You can also have a more detailed information with the digital speedometer and digital compass views, or manage waypoints, POI and destinations with the new Waypoint & POI Manager.

Efficasoft GPS Utilities features:

• Summarized view shows all your GPS information at a glance.
• Digital speedometer with customizable speed alarms.
• Two-mode digital compass with destination information display.
• World map view displays your location anywhere in the world with free-scale zooming.
• Free to use any map image (e.g. Google Earth satellite/aerial photos) for real-time moving map navigation. View your location, moving direction, track route, POI …
• The new “Go To” navigation function can guide you all the way to your destinations, there’s dest. distance, TTA, direction guider, proximity alert… almost everything you want!
• Customizable track logger can record all your movement in .csv format for later replay or analysis.
• Trip statistics with information like Moving Time, Trip Length, Max Speed and etc.
• Graphical satellites state display with detailed statistics.
• Waypoint & POI Manager and GeoPoint Editor helps you manage waypoints, POI and destinations easily.
• Fully support GARMIN .csv POI format with 30+ pre-defined POI icons.
• Friendly interface design with night view support, switch views at a single press of 0~8.
• Advanced “5 Seconds Average” and “Kalman Filter” NMEA processors for high precision navigation.
• Works with any serial, CF, SD and Bluetooth GPS device that supports the standard NMEA0183 protocol (that’s almost all GPS receivers!). Auto detects Bluetooth GPS devices.

Efficasoft GPS Utilities is useful for those who are traveling overseas, hiking, driving, geocaching and more. It supports Windows Mobile Smartphones (2003, 2003SE, WM5, WM6), QVGA (240×320) and landscape screen. You will need a GPS Receiver together with your Pocket PC to use the GPS Utilities.

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Search results are listed with thumbnail images, latitude and longitude, distance from your location and a short summary. You can sort them by name or by distance from your current location. You can also browse referenced Wikipedia articles for much more information on the place of your choice.

Windows Mobile GPS SightFinder features:

• GPS SightFinder works worldwide, it is the ideal guide for world traveling or just short trips to popular places.
• GPS SightFinder is customizable. You can configure how and how many search results are displayed. For example, search results can be sorted by name or by distance from your current location.
• Thumbnail images are available for many sites and are displayed with your search results.
• Because GPS SightFinder fetches text and pictures over the Internet from Wikipedia articles, all information is always up-to-date. New geo-referenced articles are constantly added by the community.
• Add geographical coordinates to your favorite Wikipedia article on local sites, and they will soon appear in GPS SightFinder when you visit them. Impress your visiting friends with your knowledge on-site.
• Travel light and leave your books at home! All you need is your mobile phone and GPS SightFinder.

GPS SightFinder is useful for traveling to popular places. It requires Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 2.0, an active GPS device (built-in or via Bluetooth) and Internet connection on your device to find information about points of interest.

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With GPSed, you can:

• Map GPS tracks from your mobile and keep them in a personal archive – Enable real-time tracking from mobile devices and collecting track data in an online archive.
• Pin your photos to a map with one-click geotagging feature – Take photos when you travel and link them to a map precisely at a place they were taken. The geotagged photos will be stored on your computer for easy and private access.
• Share your position and tracks with friends and family – Let your friends see your instant position on a map when you are recording tracks with GPSed.

GPsed is designated for hikers, bikers, drivers, tourists, adventure travelers, sportsmen, photographers and GPS/GIS professionals working in various industries such as forestry, fishery, transportation and others.

All you need to start tracking is a mobile device with an internal or external GPS receiver. GPSed mobile application supports RIM BlackBerry handhelds and a wide range of J2ME mobile phones, like Nokia N95, Nokia N82, Nokia 6110 Navigator and others. You can download it from http://gpsed.com/mobiles.

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To let your friends know of your whereabouts, give them your codeword to find your location. They just send you an SMS with this codeword and in return receive an SMS with your coordinates. Now all they need to do is to input the coordinates into the search box at Google Maps and see your location.

To find your friends’ location, you need to send their codeword via SMS to their Pocket PC Phone Edition. In return you will receive an SMS with their coordinates that can be looked up at Google Maps.

VITO FindMe features:

• easily spot your friends on Google Maps
• send your location additionaly via email
• protect settings by password
• send SMS from a regular cell phone and see your friends location on a desktop

This VITO FindMe is very useful when you are lost in somewhere and need somebody to know your location.

You can download VITO FindMe from here. It supports Windows Mobile 2003(SE)/ 5.0/ 6.0 Pocket PC Phone Edition with built-in GPS receiver.

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With Shazou, it is possible to locate the whereabouts of a website using the Mozilla Firefox web browser. It can locate any website’s server you are currently viewing and display the location on the Google Map. Shazou ties in directly with Google maps and offers you the usual Google representation, a satellite or hybrid view.

You can then locate the whereabouts of any Website either by:

1. Right-click on a Web link and select the “Shazou this Link” option
2. Go to the Website and then select the “Shazou” option in the right-click context menu
3. Go to the Website and then click on the S icon shown in the browser’s Status Bar

Shazou will open a new window and show where the website is hosted at. It will also show you the website registrant’s address and your IP address.

You can download the latest Shazou Firefox Extension from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2993 or from the authors site, http://www.seisan.com/shazou/.

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With the PerDiemCo software installed on your PDA or Phone, you can:

• Show your PDA or Phone’s current location on a Map – A map can be displayed on the PDA if an internet connection is available.
• Establish geographic Zones with entry & exit notification.
• Selectively send your current location as a Map to others.
• Provide ‘coded’ web access to your Maps.
• View location and tracking on the PDA or on a PC Map.
• Create Shared Zone and location maps on the PDA and on the map Server.
• Take photos & provide Location or Map based Viewing.

For a list of all complete features, read the PerDiemCo Location & Tracking Product features.

You can configure the real-time tracking interval for GPS data packets such as coordinates (latitude/longitude), speed, max speed, heading, altitude and GMT time to be sent to the server. Currently the database will keep only 500 records. When the limit is reached older records will be overwritten.

Zones are geographic boundaries defined by Latitude and Longitude coordinates. There are 3 types of zones, Red Rectangular Zone, Blue Rectangular Zone and Polygon Zone. These are useful for Start and Finish tracking inside a boundary and alert when someone enters or leaves a zone. An alert notification will be sent to Web Tracking Page.

You can remotely configure the GPS setting via SMS text messages. PerDiemCo will detect the double # signs SMS Commands embeded in an SMS Text Message body and execute it.

To download, you can click here or go to the PerDiemCo website and click on the download link. To use PerDiemCo, you will need to register to PerDiemCo service center to set up the database with your tracking information such as user name, PDA phone number, PDA type and email address. On-line registration is available at: http://www.perdiemco.com. You can control internet access to maps of your current location by creating a ‘PIN’ number for your location data.

You can also download the User Manual to understand more on the system architecture and learn how to use it.

PerDiemCo Location and Tracking – Your Personal GPS Tracking System is a post from: TechieQuest

The geonames.org geographical database is available for download free of charge under a creative commons attribution license. Geonames.org contains over eight million geographical names and consists of 6.3 million unique features whereof 2.2 million populated places and 1.8 million alternate names. All features are categorized into one out of nine feature classes and further subcategorized into one out of 645 feature codes. The data is accessible free of charge through a number of webservices and a daily database export. Geonames.org is already serving up to over 3 million web service requests per day.

Geonames is integrating geographical data such as names of places in various languages, elevation, population and others from various sources. All latitude/longitude coordinates are in WGS84 (World Geodetic System 1984). Users may manually edit, correct and add new names using a user friendly wiki interface.

With GeoNames, you can:

• search for names with our fulltextsearch (table based or displayed on map)
• browse capitals, highest mountains and largest cities on map
• browse names on map and show/hide feature classes and codes
• bookmark maps
• send maps via email
• export names as character separated values (csv) file or as png image
• edit names (wiki)
• add new names to the database (for registered users)
• geotagging of names (for registered users)

You can use the edit functions of geonames to correct spelling, correct the location of the place, add names and postal codes. You can also add names in other languages. If you are using geonames data on our website, you can have a backlink to the geonames edit page where your users can move and update a wrong entry.

For more info on how to use GeoName, read the User Manual.

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Hipoqih uses positioning systems like GPS, that these alerts can be received automatically when arriving at the corresponding point, so that the information arrives in the place that interests. It is a new form to see the Web.

With Hipoqih, you can:

• Record alerts like in a georeferenced agenda, to put notes or internet URLs linked to a geopoint that will jump in your terminal when arriving there.
• Subscribe to public alerts broadcasted from other people or organizations.
• Share your position with other people and to see its positions. It allows you to know where your friends are (of course, with guaranteed privacy)

In order to use Hipoqih and to receive the alerts of hipoqih.com, you must register in the web and install the plugin in your terminal with GPS system to send your position and to receive the alerts.

You can put warnings like in a geo-referenced daily or connect URL associated to geopoint which will appear in your terminal when arriving to that point. You can subscribe to public warnings, share your position with people and see their positions. Hipoqih allows you to know where your friends and family are.

The Hipoqih plugins are free and available for PDA with Windows Mobile, Smartphone and PC with Windows XP, but will soon branch out and include Nokia N95, and GNU-Linux. You can download the Hipoqih plugin from http://www.hipoqih.com/descargas_pc_en.htm.

For guide on how to use Hipoqih, read the User Guide at http://www.hipoqih.com/downloads/hipoqih.User_guide_v0.1.pdf.

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Mscapes is a software suite and website to enable people to design, create and share location-based experiences, games and tours with friends, family and others, anywhere in the world. Anyone with a GPS-enabled mobile device running Windows Mobile can use the Mscapes client to play any of the created games as they move through the physical world.

What is mediascapes?
mediascapes are mobile, location-based experiences that incorporate digital media with the sights, sounds, and textures of the world around you. A mediascape blends digital images, video, audio and interactions with the physical landscape. Games, guided walks, tours, and destinations are among the mediascapes created to date.

What is mscape?
mscape authoring software and the mscape player enable people to design and play location-based experiences called mediascapes with friends, family and others, anywhere in the world. And www.mscapers.com is the place for sharing and downloading mediascapes on your GPS-enabled Windows Mobile devices such as HP iPAQ (http://www.hp.com/go/ipaq).

Unlike PC-based applications, mscape technology provides a highly interactive, fun and engaging experience when users are out and about in the real world. mscape’s context-sensitive logic, combined with GPS and mapping technology, allows gamers, travel, GPS and outdoor enthusiasts to take their experiences to a higher level. The solution is so flexible that different digital files can be overlaid in the same space and delivered at different times, depending on which other locations in the mediascape the user has already visited.

“Fundamentally, all of our mobility announcements are about helping people connect with each other around information that’s important to them,” said Debra Brackeen, HP Labs’ director of strategic initiatives. “All of that connection is happening with richer and richer media experiences.” And though Mscapes is not yet a finished product, HP is “putting it out there for the enjoyment of customers and developers.”

The mscape software is available for free download at mscapers Download page, you can create your own mscape which essentially overlays imaginary images over images based on real life.

Mscapers provides everything people need to develop their own mediascapes, including training and tips to get started with Mediascape Wizards Help Guide

For more information about mediascapes and the mscape tools for making and playing mediascapes, visit http://wiki.mscapers.com/bin/view/Main/WebHome. You will get more ‘hands-on’ approach to the creation of mediascapes, downloading the mscape toolkit and the use of the mscape maker itself.

Mscapes – Share Digital Location Oriented Images and Audio from Your Mobile is a post from: TechieQuest

So, What is voice activated ?

A features that simply say the name of your destination; your Novogo V series navigator will automatically calculate the fastest route for you without inputting address each time.

Beside that, Novogo Navigation system also support Real Time TMC (Traffic Message Channel) updates let you to recalculate routes to avoid jams or accidents.

This V Series hardware has the newest SiRF Star 111 GPS antenna which improves reception in areas where there is weaker signal, along with a 3.5-inch LCD touch screen.

The outlook of the unit can be change with six different color according your car colors.

The bad news, this Novogo V series is only available with UK and Europe maps for now, but hopefully that other country maps will be available soon.

ScreenShot for Novogo V Series Navigation System

Novogo Website

Via GizModo

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