Playing with the iPhone’s GPS features
I got myself an Apple iPhone 3G recently. It’s a truly wonderful thing purely from an aesthetic point of view but it does have a few tricks up it sleeve too. Like most new mobile phones these days, the Apple iPhone has built a built in GPS receiver. It is fairly accurate too.
This got me thinking of some interesting things to do with it. While browsing through the iTunes store I discovered a neat little application called GPS tracker and best of all it is free to download. It ties in with a free service from Instamapper.com. Once installed you can configure your iPhone to update your own personal map which wil display your location along with other details such as speed etc. It’s not just limited to the iPhone however so you can check to see if you can install it on your GPS enabled mobile here.
While this may not be to your liking if you value your privacy you needn’t worry as by default your own map is set to private to default. You can also embed a map into your facebook profile or onto your blog.
It is a bit gimmicky but then I love these gimmicky things. If you are curious as to how it looks you can view my location over on my personal blog 
One final thing to be aware of is that the application needs access to the internet. So just be aware of your data charges from your mobile phone provider first!
