DISQUS

Mobile Industry Review: The Over Here iPhone App - by Ed Lea in London

  • James Whatley · 1 year ago
    Is it worth a cheeky piece of code allowing the non-iphone-owning-yet-google-mapped-up folk have a go?

    ie: I'd love to be able to click that link and let it just boot up Google Maps on my N95...

    Send us a link Ewan - lets see what happens :)
  • Kip Hakes · 1 year ago
    You can do it in Nokia Maps - as in send your location to someone via sms or email.
  • James Whatley · 1 year ago
    WALLED GARDEN!!!

    I want Ewan to (be able to) send me a link from his iPhone, to my N95. Then I want Google Maps to boot up and show me what he did on his iPhone.
  • Ewan · 1 year ago
    hold on
  • Kip Hakes · 1 year ago
    True.. I'd be VERY suprised if it worked..

    K
  • Ewan · 1 year ago
    it'll bring up a web google maps link, surely?
  • Kip Hakes · 1 year ago
    It will - and don't call me shirley.. :P
  • Kip Hakes · 1 year ago
    Hmm maybe not such a walled garden - sending from Nokia Maps attaches a .lmz file - can't google maps read those?

    K
  • James Whatley · 1 year ago
    Try it and see.
  • TerenceEden · 1 year ago
    That would require registering a handler on the phone...
    If you send the link as gmaps://123123123 then it might pick it up.
    Or you could send a link to Google's mobile pages.
    Or a SMS with a special PID which the phone would pass to Gmaps...
    Quite tricky with the current mobile architecture.

    Truth be told, I usually take a screenshot of the map and MMS it!

    Actually, it really annoys me that Google Maps Mobile has no integration with the web version. I want to be able to see the maps I've created on the web on my phone.
  • James Whatley · 1 year ago
    Re screenshots - that's what I do too... Save messin' about.
    Or - in the case of my recent fancy dress picnic - I send them a link to a Mippin page with the directions already prepared...
  • South77 · 1 year ago
    off topic somewhat...I'm using a Nokia N95 (with GPS)... is there an app/service that allwos me to show my location on a web page to other people in real time? a consumer-grade tracking service, I guess.
  • Mac Morrison · 1 year ago
    sports tracker has live location sharing via the sportstracker site.
    http://sportstracker.nokia.com/

    actually sports tracker is awesome and is for way more than just jogging.
  • Mac Morrison · 1 year ago
    yep screengrabs is the portable option - but as its emailing - chances are the user is on a comp.

    could have a list of options - mms / email screengrab. nokia maps info - google maps etc
    but gets messy handling other software/handsets.

    while were plugging - how about my vapourware

    http://mostlythis.com/post/44929237/app-store-o...
    coat my get I'll
  • James Whatley · 1 year ago
    Ok so we tried this on Friday while we were trying to meet for Episode 17 of the Podcast and this is what happened:

    1) Ewan emailed his 'I'm over here!' link to my Yahoo account.
    2) I logged into http://m.yahoo.com to read it... which I did, but I couldn't click.
    3) So then I tried logging into http://beta.m.yahoo.com... which I did, and I could click.
    4) I clicked.
    5) I got a fail. http://m.google.com didn't like the http://maps.google.com link that I was giving it.

    Bah.
  • Kip Hakes · 1 year ago
    Would it work the other way round.. sending the e-mail from Nokia Maps with the .lmz attachment an opening it on the iPhone?