Geosense for windows
If you have a smart phone like the Apple Iphone or an
Android phone, you might have heard of location-based
applications.
Applications that are able to determine where you are in the
world are a powerful way to make information more relevant.
Half a year ago, Firefox 3.5 introduced support for
geolocation, a feature that allowed the browser to pinpoint
the location of the computer using WiFi triangulation.
After personally witnessing how well it worked, Long
Zheng and his partner, Rafael Rivera, decided to port this
feature to the Windows platform.
Windows 7, like most other current generation OS'es, has a
built-in location platform and API that allow third-party
developers to build native application that are
location-aware.
However unlike other OS'es, specifically OS X, Microsoft did
not integrate a default geolocation provider, thus
developers could not take advantage of this yet.
Long Zheng and Rafael Rivera are offering a FREE
alternative.
They built Geosense for Windows, a Windows 7 sensor
driver that connects the location platform with geolocation
service providers who include but is not limited to Google
Location Services.
These geolocation providers work by matching and
triangulating known cell towers and wireless access points
in its database to estimate a latitude and longitude, with
remarkable accuracy and scope.
Today, Geosense for Windows is available for FREE.
This tool is should help enable more Windows 7 PCs
to be location-aware, and in turn create a powerful
incentive for third-party developers to take advantage of
the Windows 7 location APIs.
Check out Geosense for windows here