When Rebecca Anema goes snowboarding with her friends she sometimes looses sight of them. So she decided to make a social GPS to see where she is and where friends are in relation to the mountains.
The system combines a GPS map (altitude, longitude) with an x,y map (trail map, street address) and a social map (where friends are).
The J2ME application runs on GPS enabled phones. It communicates with the GPS to find out your location and sends the data to the database. It also checks who your buddies are and displays their location on your phone screen.
The system is useful anywhere people travel in a group.
Comments
@ 13:09
My son and daughter who both work at Copper Mountain tell me of a commercial product that does something similar. This product, I forget the name, tracks your skiing and speed and vertical feet skied. You get a printout of your day and season’s activities. I wonder how easy Rebecca’s product might be integrated into current products. Secondly, how many current handsets, from the companies are GPS enabled and available to us, the general public?
@ 08:56
That is called slope trackerand it only avauble at Park City, Copper Mountain, Winter Park, and Keystone.
@ 08:57
That is called slope tracker and it only avaible at Park City, Copper Mountain, Winter Park, and Keystone.