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Joined: Aug 31, 2005 Posts: 15317 Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 6:32 pm Post subject: Mobile POI Site Launched for Smart Phones
As a cunning part of our April Fool's Day joke Darren alluded to "some big news regarding our Points of Interest database" in a recent newsletter. Obviously our trick was that we had sold it to TomTom, but today we're happy to announce the real news!
Our Mobile POIs site is now live! Over 210,000 locations across the world available at your fingertips.
Simply point your smart phone (iPhone, Android, WP7, Nokia, Blackberry) browser to http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/mobilepoi and it will detect your location using GPS on most modern phones.
If you don't have a GPS-enabled smart phone then you can also manually enter your location. Once located you can then either view all your local points of interest, or drill it down to a specific category and/or sub-category. Once you've found the POI you want you can then navigate to it using TomTom, Navigon, Sygic, Waze, Navmii, NavFree as well as viewing in Google or Bing Maps (all these are device dependent and may also require you to have the app installed on your phone!).
If you are logged in to your PocketGPSWorld.com account you can mark categories and subcategories as favourites so that these show up at the top of the lists.
As well as finding your local POIs you can also submit new ones easily (although removal requests and editing existing POI will be added at a later date).
Joined: Aug 31, 2005 Posts: 15317 Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 8:14 pm Post subject:
kevinx wrote:
EXCELLENT work boys.
Thank you
kevinx wrote:
As normal, very impressed with your work. All it needs now, is a dowbloadable icon to pin to my home screen.
Already there fella! What device do you have?
iPhone/iPad: press the 'arrow' button then 'add to home screen'
Android: Menu (phone hardware button), save as bokmark. Then on homescreen press and hold, add new shortcut, select bookmarks, select the one you saved
WP7: in browser select 'Pin to Homescreen' (sadly no way to get an icon though - but my brother has an app that allows custom text for home screen pins).
kevinx wrote:
Will you be integrating with more sat nav apps? Co Pilot for instance?
If they work with custom URL schemes then yes. Does it have a 'share' function that allows you to email people your location or destination ad, when they receive it, it launches the app? If so then I just need to know the address it sends - something like copilot://some_details_here
As normal, very impressed with your work. All it needs now, is a dowbloadable icon to pin to my home screen.
Already there fella! What device do you have?
iPhone/iPad: press the 'arrow' button then 'add to home screen'
Android: Menu (phone hardware button), save as bokmark. Then on homescreen press and hold, add new shortcut, select bookmarks, select the one you saved
WP7: in browser select 'Pin to Homescreen' (sadly no way to get an icon though - but my brother has an app that allows custom text for home screen pins).
kevinx wrote:
Will you be integrating with more sat nav apps? Co Pilot for instance?
If they work with custom URL schemes then yes. Does it have a 'share' function that allows you to email people your location or destination ad, when they receive it, it launches the app? If so then I just need to know the address it sends - something like copilot://some_details_here
MaFt
L-) :-) VERY impressed (again)! Nice one, with the bookmark/icon ;-)
Just checked on Co-Pilot Premium, and the ONLY share options it has, is to Share with Facebook and/or Twitter, so it seems it maybe isn't possible to integrate as with GoogleMaps.
That's not really a "biggy", but would have been nice.
Anyway, once again, well done lads :-) Keep up the good work.
Cheers
(By the way HTC OneX) _________________ HTC OneX (IceCreamSandwich), HTC DesireHD (Gingerbread) Co-Pilot Premium, GoogleMaps+CamerAlert352
TomTomOne (Original with the faster processor!)
v7.903, o/s 2344, GPSv1.21 Boot 5.0500
Mv710.1561(W Europe)+Traffic, N82 connection to GPRS traffic
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Thanks Guys, absolutely brilliant. _________________ Garmin Nuvi 2599
Android with CamerAlert, OsmAnd+, Waze & TT Europe.
TomTom GO 730, GO 930, GO 940 & Rider2.
SatMap Active 10 & 20.
Enjoying looking around my hometown...........to see what I've got to add :-) fun fun fun an excellent webapp.
It's got Favourites too! Mega-useful. _________________ iOS rokcs (but my typing - well....)
@PedroStephano
Joined: Jan 31, 2004 Posts: 43 Location: Northampton, England
Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 8:11 am Post subject:
Excellent!
You have shown the big boys a thing or two here. For as long as I've had a GPS enabled smartphone I've wondered why when I search for the nearest petrol, Tesco or whatever I then have to exit and remember the postcode and manually enter it into my sat nav app.
I guess better integration is coming with the native Google maps app, as I can't seem to get the web based Google maps to realise it can give me turn by turn directions.
Improvements (sorry), augmented reality or at least an arrow pointing in the direction of the selected POI, and a better indication of selection on screen, as it's not clear until you see the loading bar across the top. (Android 2.2)
Wow! From what I can see, there is not a single POI in Madrid!!
Not the Royal Palaces, Not the Bernabeu Stadium, Not even the Airport.
Does everybody just head for the Costas and not bother with culture? _________________ Garmin Nuvi 2599
Android with CamerAlert, OsmAnd+, Waze & TT Europe.
TomTom GO 730, GO 930, GO 940 & Rider2.
SatMap Active 10 & 20.
excellent location detection but on asking for ATMs near my house, it showed my nearest ones as being in Nice and Bordeaux which are over 400 kms away! In fact the nearest ones are 8-10 kms from my house!
OK I'm in rural France, but still...
Very true Oldboy. Sad really. _________________ Garmin Nuvi 2599
Android with CamerAlert, OsmAnd+, Waze & TT Europe.
TomTom GO 730, GO 930, GO 940 & Rider2.
SatMap Active 10 & 20.
Joined: Aug 31, 2005 Posts: 15317 Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 9:14 am Post subject: Re: Is this a record ?
Andy5A wrote:
o.k., this will get beaten I'm sure, but my nearest shop is well over 4000 miles away.
I'm in Penang, Malaysia, nearest shop is Sydney, Australia.
o.k., so I only just fired it up the once, but I assume there's some way for users to contribute POIs ?
Yes, there is a 'submit' button in the menu along the top so you can add them directly in the app (uses GPS location so you would need to be at the shop itself) or you can manually locate it and submit it here: www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=POIs&ShowSubmit
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