Waze is trying to create the first user generated live driving map. Our goal is to empower drivers to
create, share and use real-time information (such as Traffic updates
or road accidents) straight from their Smartphones.
We launched an alpha three weeks ago, limited to android, and received great feedback on it from Mashable CNET Venturebeat GPS Business News and Ubergizmo to name only a couple.
We have now expanded our alpha to WinMo and are looking for alpha Users all across the US.
If you think you might be interested send me an email Daniel [at] waze [dot] com
Thanks
Daniel
do you have any plans extending it to Europe ( sweden )
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As anyone living in London will probably find, the journey planner on www.tfl.gov.uk is an absolute godsend. You basically enter the destination and starting points (Station/Postcode/Road) and it outputs out the possible journeys using all the public transports (i.e. bus/tube/tram/train) in London - i.e. any changes that has to be made (e.g. No.5 bus -> No.10 bus -> Northern Line Tube Northbound) is indicated.
I was thinking a couple of days ago that this would have been perhaps the most useful programme to have on your phone. No disrespect to TomTom and the rest (which I think are great btw), its quite difficult to travel around London or other major cities by car. Do you guys happen to know whether any such journey planner exists for the PPC or is in development?
Metro
Yup, and it's free:
http://nanika.net/Metro/
Lots and lots of cities available, including London.
Hi Guys,
I'm helping the SA Weather Service which is the ONLY accurate source of weather for SA & SADC (all these global servers are so appaulingly wrong that most of us SA's just disable the wether tab in our HTC).
They are keen to provide a weather source to the public for use on various mobile devices. Currently they generate an extensive xml file 3x per day, and all I need to do is help them specify the new file format.
I have some questions I am hoping someone here can help with:
There must be a standard format for these information sources, which I am guessing is am xml file. Ideally this will be small to minimise bandwidth served. Where can I find this schema?
Are there various standards for various apps, or do most weather apps use the same standard?
Can we just put this xml into a public directory, or do we have to have some sort of web service running?
Is it possible to make the HTC Home plugin use our data source - the hacks I've seen are related to adding different cities, not changing the data source?
Finally, I'd like to hear which apps you guys use that have the ability for one to specify a different data source. We're powerless if the app only allows a choice of 2 or 3 Russian servers.
Oh yeah, does anyone have any insight into Nokia and Symbian weather apps? If we crack this for HTC/WM, will the others work too?
Hey...this sounds brilliant...
Sorry..not gonna be much help with your questions...but wishing you the best of luck..
Wont a normal RSS feed work well based on a chosen city? I somehow think that the web service would be the best option...
Maybe this might help
GREAT!!!
I do hope to see this soon!!!
Sounds cool!
Howsit to fellow South Africans!
Im not into the weather much, Im happy With the results from SPB weather.
I know that there is not much cities supported, like in Natal, you can only get Durban, but what if you are in Margate!
I think the most of the apps rely on Yahoo Weather source........It uses .xml coding, but im not sure about the rest!!!
Howsit peeeps!
SAWS is the ONLY source of accurate weather. All other sources come from global models - usually Euro or US centric. They are appaulingly wrong for SA, for many reasons; they do not consider topography in the slightest, and their resolution over Africa is around 100km vs 4km for local models.
You will often see temp projections of 15'C to 25'C when SAWS is saying 5 to 15. How different is that! You will see clear skys when you are sitting here looking at a dense cloud bank from George thro to PTA. They're all basically SO bad they are less than useless (less, cos they make you think you know what's happening).
RSS feeds are an easy option, but we all like our cutsie phone apps, so I want to get in line with those. Ideally I want to find a freeware app, with awesome capabilities, and make sure SAWS provide data for that. Then we can post it widely here as the prefered SA option.
C'mon guys, who's developed weather apps and has some insight? I have to move fast before SAWS lose interest.
I'd love to help but have absolutely no clue on this! I use Pocket Weather and HTC Weather on my device and yeah, the forecasts are appallingly wrong 90% of the time! Hope you can get this up and running with SAWS...
Target Market
Is this only aimed at WM users??? or for the broader public....
Was the link posted above useful?? (http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/)
As an alternative slightly of the track...what if the developed a mobile website...lightweight...easily available...the limitation could be personalisation...
Sorry, yahoo link is to get their RSS feed. Their data is sourced from nternational model - all of which exclude the topography of SA (if you live in CT you can't even begin to use them).
As for min-web-site, that's a fallback. But people really do prefer an on-screen plugin, with the ability to click for more details. I'm looking for apps that support clicking thro to radar images (live stoom tracking to resched your braai!), weather and traffic cams (SAWS has them all!), and of course the up-to-the-minute data tables with forecasts etc.
Apps exist, but not sure which allow you to select data sources.
craigiecraigie4 said:
Apps exist, but not sure which allow you to select data sources.
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which apps are these......
HI
Any news on this? need people to test etc?
Thanks
Hello fellow XDA-developers!
I just wanted to announce another pet project: -->costpad.com<--
It is a purchases logging service that I wanted to develop as a "supermarket companion", but it can be used for any kind of purchases.
The basic philosophy behind it is: "By logging your purchases, you keep a track of your expenditures and at the same time you inform the community of the price of the products you bought".
The site is in active alpha stage, but in a minimal useful condition (my girlfriend and I use it daily).
As all community-based sites, the "chicken-and-egg" problem exists: The site's value increases when users use it, but users use it only after it has gained enough value... For now, the database is tiny and basically contains products/shops found near me, here in Greece , but I hope I have made it easy enough to add more content.
Features:
- Submit/Log your purchases
- View your basic monthly/overall spending statistics
- Separate accounts
- Shop map location
- View product's latest market price
- View product's cheapest vendor
- Smart shopping lists (automatically remove/decrease items when bought)
- Finger friendly for touchscreen devices
To come:
- "Downloading" a shopping list via SMS to your mobile (for low-tech, no data-plan users. I already use it)
- Automatically "solve" the shopping list "equation" and propose the cheapest nearby location to buy the items
- Coupling with Barcorama is on its way naturally... The vision: "Return home from the supermarket and use your pda to quickly+accurately log the purchases..."
- Voting system to filter out the bad/inaccurate information
- Automatic logging of purchases (e.g. using Paypal receipt emails)
- Pocket-IE friendly
- Database security: encryption of user private entries
- Own data export/import
- Bug fixes!
I will be glad to hear any comments... but please, don't be too cruel, I'm not a web developer actually..
have fun
P.S. I do all the development/hosting on my own home server, so expect slow speeds...
fellow XDAers,
I just wanted to bump this thread by reporting some developments..
- costpad calculates the "best" shop to go buy your shopping list items. Based on distance, item availability and ofcource price
- smart product and shop search. Try using multiple keywords in the product and shop boxes
- browser friendly OpenSearch. You can add costpad as a search engine to the search box. In firefox e.g. press the searchbox icon and select "Add Costpad"
- coupled with Barcorama. You can use barcorama to scan a barcode and "quickly" submit an relevant purhase. Network access is required for that, so charges may apply...
- more unified GUI
what do you think? check it out... http://costpad.com
have fun,
hypest
There has been increasing demand for a windows mobile version of imap.
iMapMy (powered by MapMyFitness is a location-based application that uses the built in GPS technology on your iPhone to allow runners, cyclists, (or any outdoor fitness activity) to track their daily training data, including:
* Total Time
* Total Distance (in miles or kilometers)
* Pace (minutes per km/mile) or current speed
* Average Speed / Pace (km/mile)
* View your running maps directly on your iPhone
* Training Log including Distance, Calories Burned, Time, and Date
* Add Your Workout to Twitter
Some requests have been sent into the map my run team, but I was wondering if some of the amazing people here might be able to develop this. Maybe people have been using g-watch and uploading their gpx files to the mapmyrun website, but the application would be pretty convenient to have, and hopefully more accurate than the geocatching on g-watch. That being said, g-watch has been amazing!
I am not a programmer and cannot offer much as far as help beyond testing, but I am sure the app would be greatly appreciated by me and the map my run community (who I would surely share this with).
Please respond or PM me if you are willing to take up the challenge or have any ideas or suggestions.
Thanks.
Hi!
There are actually (at least) two applications available on the WinMo platform that has some of the requested features.
1) Ageye G-Watch (that you obviously are aware of)
2) GPS Cycle Computer v3
None of the above mentioned applications have all the features of iMapMy, but I guess that this are the two best candidates to adopt new features, because both applications are free (GPS Cycle Computer is even open source). I guess that you could contact the authors and discuss further development.
Regards,
PK
Thanks for the suggestions! I am putting GPS Cycle on my phone right now. I am going to see about hooking the developers and mapmyrun to get a fully integrated mapmyrun app too.
You might also want to check BikeDashboard:
http://bikedashboard.mathieugardere.com/
It also has some of the features you requested. And a little donation to the developers might help to convince them to put in the rest of these features
Check out www.sportypal.com
I use RunGPS trainer which is brilliant (but paid), downloaded sportypal yesterday and it looks like it may have some similar features and its free.
I also recommend RunGPS. It has more features than I need, really (routing, heart rate monitor etc), but I do like the options for lap detection, voice output of various stats, map and route downloading from multiple sources and a very thorough (if not very aestehtically pleasing) portal to upload information to ( http://www.gps-sport.net , although it can also upload to a couple of other independent sites)
It doesn't have Twitter integration afaik, but there are widgets and static images that you can put on websites with some information.
If there's one feature that I miss from Nokia Sportstracker on Symbian, it would be using the accelerometer as a pedometer. This was pretty accurate on my old N95, even when just walking.
have you tried track my run?
click me
in germany there is smartrunner, its covering all of your needs:
http://www.smartrunner.de
+1 for SportyPal.
You can actually track your run/bike/rollerblade etc, then upload it to your sportypal.com page, and view the stats. You can even share it with your friends!!
(PLUS ITS FREE!)
Thanks for all the suggestions. I have so much research to do now! I am also going to share this trhead with the peeps over on the mapmyrun forum so they can take a look at all the optison they have.
Kind of redundant
I think Sporty Pal just saved me from buying a garmin. Now I just need a armband for my fuze and Im ready to roll!
+1 sporty pal
Now I just have to find out if it has some kind of virtual runner =)
h__p://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2012/01/11/samsung-bada-wave-3-tomtom-gps-embed-dream/
Android smartphones are blessed with Google Maps, and we have always said that this mapping system is very good, but now it is time for TomTom to make its debut on handsets by way of integration.
TomTom satellite navigation specialists have announced that they want to establish themselves more in the smartphone market, and step away from providing apps and concentrating more into embed its maps within the company’s Samsung Bada Wave 3 smartphone.
Samsung provides Google Maps on Android devices as said above, but now a new partnership with TomTom will provide stunning and enhanced content, 3D Landmarks and 3D City Maps will makes it way onto the Wave 3 handset, other main features will include live road conditions, traffic incidents, accidents and navigate around traffic jams.
Moving away from apps and embedding its GPS directly into the Android operating system is what we call the embed dream.
What does it mean? TomTom is coming to bada 2.0?
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h__p://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2012/01/11/samsung-bada-wave-3-tomtom-gps-embed-dream/
Android smartphones are blessed with Google Maps, and we have always said that this mapping system is very good, but now it is time for TomTom to make its debut on handsets by way of integration.
TomTom satellite navigation specialists have announced that they want to establish themselves more in the smartphone market, and step away from providing apps and concentrating more into embed its maps within the company’s Samsung Bada Wave 3 smartphone.
Samsung provides Google Maps on Android devices as said above, but now a new partnership with TomTom will provide stunning and enhanced content, 3D Landmarks and 3D City Maps will makes it way onto the Wave 3 handset, other main features will include live road conditions, traffic incidents, accidents and navigate around traffic jams.
Moving away from apps and embedding its GPS directly into the Android operating system is what we call the embed dream.
What does it mean? TomTom is coming to bada 2.0?
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Of course Wave I and Wave II will come out empty like it is with almost all the other Bada 2.0 apps
z|-|ero said:
h__p://www.phonesreview.co.uk/2012/01/11/samsung-bada-wave-3-tomtom-gps-embed-dream/
Android smartphones are blessed with Google Maps, and we have always said that this mapping system is very good, but now it is time for TomTom to make its debut on handsets by way of integration.
TomTom satellite navigation specialists have announced that they want to establish themselves more in the smartphone market, and step away from providing apps and concentrating more into embed its maps within the company’s Samsung Bada Wave 3 smartphone.
Samsung provides Google Maps on Android devices as said above, but now a new partnership with TomTom will provide stunning and enhanced content, 3D Landmarks and 3D City Maps will makes it way onto the Wave 3 handset, other main features will include live road conditions, traffic incidents, accidents and navigate around traffic jams.
Moving away from apps and embedding its GPS directly into the Android operating system is what we call the embed dream.
What does it mean? TomTom is coming to bada 2.0?
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Click to collapse
Route 66 uses TomTom maps and navigation
http://corporate.tomtom.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=549627
TomTom Maps and Location Content
ROUTE 66 selected TomTom as the provider of map data for ROUTE 66 Maps + Navigation to ensure its users the best possible mapping and navigation experience available. For this brand new app, ROUTE 66 is using TomTom maps, and a wide range of location content such as 3D City Maps, 3D Landmarks and Premium POIs.
"We are extremely pleased to provide a critical component in this compelling new ROUTE 66 application," said Maarten van Gool, Managing Director, TomTom Licensing. "Our maps rate very highly in terms of quality and reliability, and are updated daily via millions of GPS system users worldwide, who help to track and validate changes in real time."
"ROUTE 66 Maps + Navigation provides the future of navigation, today," said Paul Warmer, ROUTE 66 Vice President Marketing. "And it's also great fun to use. Everyone who tested our new product, became hooked on the unique Follow Me feature, which we believe is a major step forward in making navigation more intuitive and a lot more fun."
here samsung means tom tom will be available for wave3 and not for bada2,0