Applications, Location, and GPS

I’ve been seeing more and more articles about location applications and interesting uses of GPS technologies lately, and I really think that 2009 will be the year that many of these applications move into the mainstream. People are moving onto smarter phones, like the iPhone and Android devices, that use GPS data seamlessly in applications.

I also ran across an interesting article from Wired this morning: Inside the GPS Revolution: 10 Applications That Make the Most of Location. It looks at a bunch of less well known applications used on phones to locate police traps, wake you from a nap at your train stop, play location games, adjust phone settings based on location, and more. I was a little sad not to see IceCondor on the list, but the Wired article still covered some interesting applications.

Now that we have a beta version of the Shizzow API out, I am anxious to see how people use location data, GPS, and other technologies in applications that interface with Shizzow.