Attention Stalkers!
I’ve made it easy for anyone that wants to stalk me! You can now view a map with my current location on it.
I got my hands on an update for my phone which now unlocks the GPS. Previously you could only use the GPS with Verizon’s VZ Navigator. A horrible piece of software that costs you $10 a month extra. Now with my GPS unlocked I can use any software I want.
To get my ‘live’ location I’ve signed up for Trackr. Their software runs on my phone, constantly checking my location via the GPS. It then uploads this information to Trackr’s server which then magically displays it on a Google map.
Pretty cool if you ask me. There are some other amazing features with Trackr that I’m excited to use. If you have friends that also use the service, you can setup Geo-fencing alerts. What that means is I can setup a rule that anytime one of my friends gets within 5 miles of my house (or my current location) they will send me a message letting me know I’ve got friends in the area.
If you are a Flickr user (I am not but might consider now), you can take photos and upload them to Flickr from the phone. Trackr then checks your Flickr account and if it finds any photos that are from the date and times that you are logging your location…it will display them on the map as well.
I’m sure some people will wonder why in the heck I would want anyone to know where my exactly location is at any time. Why not? I’m not doing anything so shady that I have to keep my location secret. If I do go to the strip club and I don’t want Mom knowing…I can just turn off the GPS.
Update: Well now after only a couple days with Trackr, I’m moving to Google Maps. Why? The biggest factor is that Trackr seems to prevent my phone from shutting off the screen. I have to do it manually. Since I’m not used to that, I keep leaving the phone on and the battery then dies way to fast.
I don’t have this problem with Google Maps. Yet the features aren’t as full. I can live without the Flickr integration but I did like that Trackr’s map would auto refresh and show my movement live. And Google’s map doesn’t let you scroll around.