Por Luv Sayal el 5 September 2008
Wikiloc is a project that I have been following since it won the mashup competition of Google Maps Spain in 2006. After a redesign at the beginning of this year that helped it gain considerably in traffic, now comes the definitive support for this project as it becomes a part of the information layer available on Google Earth.
Jordi Ramot tells me that the increase in traffic on an international level is an important one and that the moment has arrived to give full dedication to this project. Wikiloc offers its users an application with which to manage their GPS routes and place them on Google maps.
I don’t know if Wikiloc will get the level of support from Google similar to the support received by Panoramio, but I do believe that this news is very relevant for the project, mostly for the repercussion it means on an international level.
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Por Javier el 17 January 2008
Hipoqih is one of the projects that was presented in Startup 2.0 and it seemed that the name could be a drawback for the project to be successful. Its creators have decided to modify the name a bit mostly to make it a little easier for English speakers to pronounce it.
Hipoqih is now Ipoki, has a new logo, new design and the appearance of a social network, although its main function has not changed, which is to know the location of a person on a map through his/her mobile phone. We could say that Ipoki is like a twitter where instead of replying what you are doing, you say where you are. More than for the purpose of entertainment, this application is more useful to locate the elderly, dependant or the disabled, to locate employees of a company, …
As the basis for locating people on Ipoki is the mobile phone with GPS, the developmental work being carried out at this point is centered around making the application work on iPhone, the Blackberries and mobiles with Android.
Other aspects in which the team of Ipoki is working are integration with other applications like Flickr, Google Earth, Netvibes and iGoogle.
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Por Javier el 4 January 2008
The GPS devices shop ActivaGPS has just started a service called Nav2us that allows users to share geolocalized places and multimedia content through their GPS device.
Nav2us utilizes the API’s of various map services and of some mashups to offer the user a series of options that improve the experience of using a GPS navigator.
The principal functionality of Nav2us is to offer the members of the community a place to share the location of their places, something that sites like Tagzania or Wikiloc already do. And the main utility that I see is that one can download content directly from the website to a GPS connected to the computer.
Nav2us has versions in Spanish, English and French. It’s a good strategy to come out in various languages and promote the use of the site on an international level.
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