GPSies for Android shows all tracks of GPSies.com at Google Maps. It is connected to an update server of GPSies.com. The tracks of GPSies.com will by synchronized with the live system within a cycle of at least seven days. Only the 15 newest tracks are shown within the current viewport. Change the viewport or the zoom level to find other tracks. GPSies.com is a outdoor track community with worldwide over 300.000 trekking, running, walking, cycling, skating (and more) tracks. GPSies Android views the tracks of GPSies.com on Google maps by an easy location based search (GPS).

GPSies.com is the leading platform and community for GPS recorded tracks and is used by thousands of outdoor enthusiasts around the world.

Features

• Search within the viewport.
• Shows track on street or satellite map.
• Lists tracks near by.
• Display detail page of track with elevation model.
• Detecting your location (GPS supported).

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This post was submitted by Klaus Bechtold.

GeoMata Client is a part of the GeoMata project, which maps geographic locations to web content (audio, video, html).

The GeoMata project provides an open REST service that maps geographic locations to web content (audio, video, html), and a mobile client for accessing this data. The mapped spots are called “blips”. The GeoMata Android client displays these “blips” either on a map or in list form, sorted by proximity to your current location.

The application might be useful for travelers. Once you are standing next to a monument of some historic person, you can launch GeoMata on your mobile device. GeoMata, using the devices GPS, will provide you with a list of available web content. This might be a Wikipedia page pertaining to the person or monument your looking at.

The hardest part about a service like this is gathering all the data to make this a really useful application. The authors bootstrapped GeoMata with over 140,000 points that link to Wikipedia, which is a good start, but we the system is open and users can add content as well. Users can create a new “blip” right from the device itself, associate it with some web content (can be an audio file, mp4 video or a web page), and share it with the rest of the world.

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HTC’s Android-based Dream phone may not support push-based work mail or ship as soon as expected, according to electronista.com. The device only supports push e-mail through Google’s own Gmail service and that support for Microsoft’s Exchange service isn’t known at the moment.

The phone may take advantage of Google’s dominance of web advertising to lower the cost of the device; those who volunteer to allow ads on their phone may see discounts either on the initial cost of the device or for their monthly subscription fees. These customers will see ads that are based not only on interests revealed through apps but also through the phone’s location. They also suggest the handset may not be available until near the Thanksgiving in November.

Source : electronista.com

This here is the core Metosphere Android application. The goal is this application is to follow the Firefox/Eclipse model and provide the ability to create extensions and add-ons like a Geocaching Assistant, Location Messaging Client, Proximity-based KML/GeoRSS Reader, Flash Mob Communicator, Community/Campus Emergency Alert Notifier, or even a Meatspace MUD game.

Some of the features allow the use to Explore and create virtual objects around your physical location like messages, emergency alerts, news, events, reviews, games. View geospatial data from Wikipedia, Eventful, and Upcoming. Start a GeoBlog on your GPS-enabled phone.

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