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Heavy Eddie
08-01-2006, 12:26 PM
I don't know if something like this already exists, but I'm sure it would be a very simple application to create and would be awesome.

I would love to have a small app on my PPC that would simply Email my coordinates to someone every xx minutes. The Email could also contain a URL to the google map with my position.

It would really be awesome if something like this could support ftp, sms or even a way to pass the coords along to a web server.

JesterMania
08-01-2006, 03:37 PM
I forgot what the service/program name is called but a while back, I saw news on the frontpage here that there was a service that tracks your location and posts it on the internet. Take a look in the frontpage archives to see if you can find it (or maybe someone else remembers the name).

Darius Wey
08-01-2006, 06:17 PM
I forgot what the service/program name is called but a while back, I saw news on the frontpage here that there was a service that tracks your location and posts it on the internet. Take a look in the frontpage archives to see if you can find it (or maybe someone else remembers the name).

Something like this? http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=49261

It's not quite what Heavy Eddie was asking for, but it uses a similar concept.

Heavy Eddie
08-02-2006, 12:13 AM
That's pretty cool! I would like to give that a try just for the fun factor.

GPS Tuner kind of does this. It requires you to pay for the service and the application is pretty memory intensive.
http://www.gpstuner.com/gpsshare/about.php

Navio will let will work with A2B... also interesting, but not exactly what I'm looking for.

I will continue my search. I talked to a friend who is into hamm radio and he said they do this already. I wonder if someone has adapted something?