Developer links GPS to Google Maps
By Marc Perton 
posted Feb 15th 2005 1:30AM
posted Feb 15th 2005 1:30AM
Australian developer Glen Murphy has created a GPS plug-in for the recently released Google Maps service. Although the tool currently requires Windows XP or 2000 (which means, of course, you need a full-size laptop hooked up to your GPS), we can easily envision a version that works with a Palm or Pocket PC PDA. While this may never take the place of dedicated mapping software, the idea of getting your GPS to interface with the Web has its appeal; we'd like to be able to go a step further and be able to, say, run a search on Moviefone.com and have our GPS transparently plot a route to the theater without us having to punch in the adddress. What do you say, Glen?
I say there are a few things being looked at :D
Forget a movie ticket how about realtime updated trafic info and routing around problems.
Forget a movie ticket how about realtime updated trafic info and routing around problems.
how about doing a google map search on your gps enabled phone and getting directions that way
oh yeah i want nothing more than my location being broadcast straight through the info super highway. so they peek down on me with the spy satalites. and immidiately know what kind of porn i was looking at. what kinds of perscription drugs i bought from canada. not to mention all my business conversations. just by clicky my sorry stoners face in a list of people who are known offenders. systematically eradicating whole cultures out of existence.
idiots. fight gps down. build your space ships and take down the satalites. REBEL REBEL REBEL!
Slow down there, nore! Too many people think that GPS is Big Brother's tool. But the same people don't mind walking/driving around yelling into their cell. How do you think it knows when to ring?
Better yet, I say we have our GPS do our taxes, and pay our bills, and maybe when speech software gets better we can have it read our kids a bedtime story, or talk romanticaly to our spouse. While we're at it we might as well cut off our nerve functions to our arms and legs - have the part of the brain that controls that do more important things, like think of new GPS functions - so we can just sit around in our recliners sipping mashed potatos from a straw.
Sounds great but how do you get map updates while you're driving around ... cellular internet connection??
The first thought I had when I sa Google Maps was GPS. Please Glen...give us a Mac version :-)
Great idea to have it work on mobile devices, like Pocket PCs and Smartphones, but it will never work until the browsers on those devices support enough javascript and DHTML to be able to use Google Maps, which they curently don't:
http://www.geekblog.org/2005/02/google-maps.html
Another GPS enabled website that I just found (http://www.geosnapper.com/) allows you to create a GPS tagged photo album so you can see all your photos plotted on an interactive map, similar to Google's map.
This one lets You display Your whole trip, if logged:
http://www.magnalox.net
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I have tried the Movin Gmap in my computer and gps device, but it insists to give me the wrong location (somewhere in Kansas, having in mind that I am in Brazil). Is there any other adding tool to connect my GPS device to Google Maps or Google Earth Pro?