Comments on: Calling All Application Developers - Is This Possible?

By: DavidB

DavidB — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:52:16 +0000

Sounds like a capability that RIM should have built into the OS of every GPS capable Blackberry. That said, since so many carriers block access to the GPS location from anything but their own “pay extra per month” apps, this capability isn’t going to gain widespread traction without RIM putting their foot down and telling carriers to stop blocking access to hardware features. But RIM has shown no balls when it comes to doing for the end user (vice their REAL customer, the carriers).

By: Ronen Halevy

Ronen Halevy — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:40:59 +0000

Interesting so I guess Neil you’re confirming that it is not that hard and Richard creating his own application proves that somebody other than me thinks this is a good idea

By: Richard Puckett II

Richard Puckett II — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:25:01 +0000

Like many other BB devs, I wrote my own GPS-based tracking app. Simply captured my coordinates every X minutes, transferred them to my web service, and made them available on a Google maps page. Want to know where I live?

http://www.falseflag.com/maps/finder/find.cgi

So, would there be much more involved than adding something like the above link to all outgoing emails?

I just read

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/venture/archives/136740.asp?source=rss

The paragraph starting with “For example, she said the company is working on a technology that would…” sounds like a more-general case of what you’re describing. Not just geotagging email, but all content originating on the mobile device. A couple good BB devs could probably whip up something like that relatively quickly, I’d think.

By: Neil

Neil — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 03:14:58 +0000

So basically all you are really after would be a menu item when composing an email or PIN message which says “Insert current location” and this would insert a link which when clicked by the recipient launches the BBMaps app pointing to that loc:

(ie: http://maps.blackberry.com?lat=xx.xxxx&lon=xx.xxxx&z=?”

That would take all of one minute It’s not automatic mind you but it would do the job!