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Track your device from anywhere

July 7th, 2008

Rob Dunfey from The Spatial Miscellany has had a bit of time on his hands recently, and has come up with a handy way to track himself and his device.

By combining a GPS enabled device, some Nokia beta software, some HTML code and some PHP, he has made himself a workable tracking site that shows where he (or at least his handset) is. He provides a link to a working example of a map of his current location – when we looked his device was either turned off, or he was at work – but this could be great fun to see where he goes in a day. In fact, it could work extremely well for tracking lost/stolen devices, and simply uses available technology without the ‘significant investment’ in hardware that Rob says would be needed otherwise. He has tied it in to Nokia’s Mobile Web Server (MWS), which he is ‘puzzled’ hasn’t grabbed more attention.

Do you think Rob’s tool would work for tracking devices? Can you see any other applications for it? Jump over to his site and let him know.

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  Posted by Track your device from anywhere - Nokia N95Users on July 7th, 2008 at 5:50 pm
  

  [...] your device from anywhere Just been reading about this over on WOM Rob Dunfey from The Spatial Miscellany has had a bit of time on his hands recently, and has come [...]

  
  

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