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
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