I Am Here: One Man's Experiment With the Location-Aware Lifestyle
http://www.wired.com/gadgets/wireless/magazine/17-02/lp_guineapig?currentPage=all

Simply put, location changes everything. This one input—our coordinates—has the potential to change all the outputs. Where we shop, who we talk to, what we read, what we search for, where we go—they all change once we merge location and the Web.

Interesting Wired article on Geotagging and photographs. Shows the potentially creepy side of stalking throught the net using geotagged flickr photos!

location, location, location location awareness needn't be invasive or creepy. But it can be isolating.

To test whether I was being paranoid, I ran a little experiment. On a sunny Saturday, I spotted a woman in Golden Gate Park taking a photo with a 3G iPhone. Because iPhones embed geodata into photos that users upload to Flickr or Picasa, iPhone shots can be automatically placed on a map. At home I searched the Flickr map, and score—a shot from today. I clicked through to the user's photostream and determined it was the woman I had seen earlier. After adjusting the settings so that only her shots appeared on the map, I saw a cluster of images in one location. Clicking on them revealed photos of an apartment interior—a bedroom, a kitchen, a filthy living room. Now I know where she lives.

See your friends' locations and status messages and share yours with them.

* * * * Fred wants to hang out with his friends, and checks to see where they are. My wife is on her way back from work. I'd better start preparing dinner now. Change your status message or photo. Check what your friends are up to from their status. Maintain complete control of your privacy. Learn more about Google Latitude Watch a video See where your friends are in real time! Enjoy Google Latitude on your phone, computer, or both. Start using it on your phone See your friends' locations and status messages and share yours with them.

From the magazine

와이어드의 GPS기사

Inside the GPS revolution it's more than maps and driving directions: location-aware phones and apps now deliver the hidden information that lets users make connections and interact with the world in ways they never imagined. The future is here and it's in your pocket.

This is crazy scary!

A great article on the incredible potential (and scary pitfalls) of broadcasting your location at all times. Including some really interesting discussion of the way our social contexts haven't really caught up (e.g. people thinking he was lonely or depressed and yearning for company).

This is scary stuff, I tell you what.

Context and scale, past and future.

Matt Jones's current thoughts on location-based services and the value of "nearish" over "here".

Matt Jones of dopplr de-bunks the b-chino'd hype surrounding in the moment location based apps. Love it.

Perhaps the idea of showing where you are exactly now isn't so good afterall - it's more relevant to talk about where I'll be soon so you can react to it accordingly.

Earlier Matt Jones posting, more mind-bending moments, particularly on the highly temporal value of high resolution location data.

Analyst firm Gartner has just released a report that highlights eight up-and-coming mobile technologies which they predict will impact the mobile industry over the course of the next ...

How To Trace a Mobile Phone Location with Google Latitude

Glympse - Share Your Where - http://www.glympse.com/

Share Your Where

socialnetworking location gps technology mobile tech web2.0 http://www.glympse.com/

easy way to find myself in strnge cities

this bookmark brought from the different place.

All of a sudden I have a keen interest in getting a GPS.

map to print

Print maps, draw on them, scan them back in and help OpenStreetMap improve its coverage of local points of interests and street detail. Walking Papers is a product of Stamen Design's Michal Migurski.

The geo-location-javascript framework gives access to mobile web users location via javascript. It hides the underlying platform specific implementation through a simple unified interface.

"javascript geo location framework for the mobile web"

A geo location javascript which determines user location in mobile web. Interesting piece of technology.

Foursquare is by no means the first location-based social network to help you connect with friends using GPS via your mobile device. In fact, Brightkite was one of the first companies to really make a splash, combining location sharing, friend connections, and Twitter-like streams to create a photo and status update feed for your check-in history, and placestreams for each location. [Next Twitter? or NBT ?]

interesting

Eine gute Erklärung von Foursquare, einem Local Social Networking Spiel (oder so). Eine tolle Idee zum location based gaming/ location based ecommerce.

For $150 these MIT students took a balloon 17.5 miles high into the uppermost parts of the stratosphere and returned 5 hours later some 20 miles away from the launch site.

FAA

TechCrunch blogs about "life recorders". I want one ASAP and have since Wired wrote up Microsoft's SenseCam research. http://bit.ly/2lJ2rZ [from http://twitter.com/JMaultasch/statuses/3823778835]

In fact I’ve already spoken with one startup that has been working on a device like this for over a year now, and may go to market with it in 2010.

Why the NMEA standard is so much trouble

Away back in the dark and backward abysm of time when GPS technology was first being made generally available (e.g., 1993), only military-grade receivers were sensitive enough to use it where there were things like buildings and trees partly blocking the sky view. The first civilian customers to actually find a use for it were people messing about in boats. Thus it came to pass that the manufacturers of marine navigation systems were the first civilians to grapple with the question of how a GPS receiver should report TPV information over a wire to a navigational computer.

Geolocation EASY

GeoLocation

[foursquare]って何だ？って思ったけど、こういうことだったのね（＾＾；…。>>

Dont want to lose your friends? Enter Google Latitude: http://is.gd/ik4R [from http://twitter.com/AdNerds/statuses/1175779092]

See your friends on a map with Google Latitude To start using Google Latitude on your computer, sign in to your Google Account. * See your friends locations and status messages on a full-screen map * Control your location and who gets to see it

Keep track of your friends - really, although not ready for iPhone yet: http://www.google.com/mobile/default/latitude.html [from http://twitter.com/mpondu/statuses/1178291881]

Reading: Hyperlinking the Real World http://bit.ly/nm1gu [from http://twitter.com/sandroalberti/statuses/1466115202]

Retweeting @Hirkani: Ljubljana on Read Write Web: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/hyperlinking_the_real_world_redux.php [from http://twitter.com/brianking/statuses/1461934137]

a new system that will allow camera phone users to hyperlink the real world

European researchers working on the MOBVIS project have developed a new system that will allow camera phone users to hyperlink the real world. Intéressant en situation de mobilité, notamment pour les piétons.

Ooooh that's how I wish my world could be!

Wow, very cool indeed! Enhance your photos with osm data. Haven't found if you can upload your own pictures though...

Pretty cool

15+ FREE iPhone Apps to Navigate Your World resources list from mashable

mashable.com: free apps to navigate the world

See where your friends are right now. Enjoy Google Latitude on your phone, computer, or both

to track the friend by google latitude

Lets you see your friends on a map. Latitude is a feature of Google Maps for mobile.

zien waar jij en je vrienden zich begeven

Locate your friends!

For their new Purple Pedals campaign Yahoo has dispatched a handful of GPS-enabled bicycles equipped with cameraphones that automatically shoot

I want one of these!

omg yahoo's flickr team is awesome

By attaching a camera phone to a bike, Yahoo has made it possible for riders to snap photos along their routes. The camera automatically takes a picture every 60 seconds, and the photos are uploaded to Flickr instantaneously.

OffMaps lets you take your maps offline. It is the ideal companion for any iPhone and iPod Touch user, who wants to access maps when travelling abroad (and avoid data roaming charges) and who wants to have fast access to maps at all times. This app (and the icon) just has to be on the right hand side of Apple's built-in maps app.

OffMaps allows you to take your maps offline and search them on your iPod Touch and iPhone without an active internet connection

This would have been handy when we were traveling Italy last year.

Four years ago I wrote about a way to encode the latitude and longitude of any point on the Earth's surface to 10m of accuracy with a 10 character code. Apart from a modification to the way the check digit is calculated, the code remains unchanged.

Four years ago I wrote about a way to encode the latitude and longitude of any point on the Earth's surface to 10m of accuracy with a 10 character code. Apart from a modification to the way the check digit is calculated, the code remains unchanged. The idea is this: instead of giving people addresses, or coordinates, you can give them something like a post code for any point on the Earth's surface. This can then be entered into a GPS device and decoded. Thus a business can provide its 10:10 code and know that people will be able to find it.

code to calculate gps position accuratly to 10 m