Geo waypoint type iphone app

[al james]

Ok, this probably exists. Not having an iphone I dont know! I could
not see exactly what I wanted on the app store, so here goes.

I want a system for recording and sharing physical locations. Two use
cases:

1) The old problem of trying to meet someone who does not know the
city. "What can you see?" "I can see the brighton pavilion" "You at
the back of the front" "Which sides the front" etc... I want to be
able to tap something on my (fictional) iphone and my location to pop
up on the other persons handset.

This could simply send them a SMS with a maps link (can you do that?)
or an email taken from the contacts database.

Ok there are all kind of 'clever' web app solutions for sharing my
location (fireeagle, that google thing based on the old dodgeball) but
I want something thats simple and does not require the people I share
with to have to sign up.

2) I want to be able to record where I have been and what I found
there. "Damn, I know I saw XXX for sale in brighton but I cant
remember where I was".

Imagine just pushing a button on the device and it stores your current
location along with a user editable note (tags maybe). So I am looking
in the shop window and I press the button and type 'XXX for sale'. Or
I take a quick photo. Or I record a quick voice message.

I also want to be able to send these stored locations in the same way
as use case one. E.g. on the phone "I saw that in a shop last week,
sending you the location".

Thoughts?

[Oli Allen]

I've heard of something similar to the second one - lets you store
where you have parked the car and navigate back

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szrsfeyLzyg

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[Danny Hope]

Kind of related:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/place-pages-for-google-maps-there-are.html

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[Alastair James]

I've heard of something similar to the second one - lets you store
where you have parked the car and navigate back

Arh yes. One possible use of what I am talking about.... 

[Alastair James]

Kind of related:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/place-pages-for-google-maps-there-are.html

Cheers Danny. I guess thats more like a public wiki for places?  

[Danny Hope]

2009/9/25 Alastair James <al.j...@gmail.com>:

> Cheers Danny. I guess thats more like a public wiki for places?

Yeah

[Alastair James]

In general, this is really an extension of my general frustration with
mobile phones and the way that you cannot share things on your phone
with others easily if they are far away.

Imagine, during a call, being able to drag and drop anything on your
phone (images, a contact number, file, document, bit of private
information like my location) onto a drop zone representing the active
call. It then transfers and appears on the other users screen. So you
could send photos or your location easily... Maybe one day!

Al

2009/9/25 Danny Hope <danny...@gmail.com>:

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