Dear readers,

In addition to the earlier published BikeTrack application (realtime monitoring users using a web-interface), I've created a proof-of-concept for mobile devices. With this application, you can login on your mobile device and see your and your friends current location on a small map (Google Maps in this proof-of-concept). You can zoom in and out on this map and swipe it with your stylus (or finger) to move to map to a new location. If you tap and hold the map, you can select a user and send him or her a message, which he or she immediatly receives with a sound notification.

This could come in handy in a lot of situations. e.g. When your company has a large number of employees and a bad thing happens, like a fire in his departement. You can imagine the user would like to know where his collegues are at the moment and notify the users nearby of the fire.
Another case is when a collegue is late for an appointement and you just want to now where he is. In the meantime the belated collegue can send the others a message that he's on his way and as they could see, he's stuck in traffic. Ofcourse there are a lot more situations where this could come in handy, but this is just to show that it is possible.

Interested after reading? Do call us, we can't call you!

Wouter van der Veer, R&D 2go-mobile B.V.

Article dated : 9 jan 2009
Rev : 1

 (O) = Yourself
 (X) = Other user, hold map to send message!