At the recent LBS & Telecom summit held in conjunction with the ESRI user conference the Trimble Outdoors application got a fair bit of attention. For those of you not familiar with it, Trimble Outdoors is a very cool community “blogging” style of service that enables outdoor enthusiasts to store, manage, and share their GPS logs with others. A typical user might use the service to store a route from a recent hike, Adding to the coolness is the ability to include comments, photos, etc… with the GPS data. Backpacker magazine boasts about the service and a number of their Editors/Guides use the service to store information about suggested hiking routes. It’s a pretty cool application that takes advantage of the popularity of recreational GPS use and geocaching. Check it out at http://www.trimbleoutdoors.com/
Archives for August 9, 2005
Google chasing more Location-Based Services
According to searchenginewatch, Google is planning to Acquire Location-Based, Social Networking Service – Google will announce the acquisition of Meetroduction. This is Google’s second acquistion in the social networking/location-based services space in recent months. In May, Google acquired dodgeball.com, a service that allows users to find “friends” and new friends using text messaging. You can likely find more on this in the days to come at http://www.meetro.com/