If you find you send a lot of SMS messages asking “Where are you?” you might want to check out Kooee, an Aussie-made app built around making the act of sharing location information as easy as possible.
The app, which is available for iPhone, iPad and Mac at launch, works just like an SMS messaging app, with the addition of two new buttons on screen – request location or share your location. It integrates through your contacts lists, Twitter contacts or allows you to add new contacts by bumping devices together, and allows you to share your location outside of the Kooee network via SMS, email, Facebook or Twitter.
While Kooee has only launched on iOS so far, they’ve also launched an API for developers to transport the service to other platforms, which means that the service should theoretically work across platforms when it launches on other mobile operating systems.
It’s a free download across all the currently supported platforms.
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Corteks
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 12:10 PMFor months now Me and my friends have been using a great little Android app called Glympse that allows you to send your live GPS co-ordinates to someone you choose and specify a period over which they can view it (say, for 30 minutes). Can be sent via email or SMS or what have you. Can also send just your current GPS location or input a destination point along with your GPS info.
It’s free and sounds like it has a bit more functionality than this. And the viewer can simply view your live location through google maps, no need for them to have the app themselves.
Vaughn
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 12:30 PMThe app requires users to sign-up, I don’t see this taking off if you can only use it if both users have an account. An app that sends GPS details to another user via sms who can then open them in the Maps application would be much more useful in my opinion.
adam
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 12:52 PMyou can already send your location to someone via the native messaging app. I think it sends it as an MMS, and opens in the Maps app.
Althalus
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 12:34 PMWhatsapp is probably better, lets you send current location, photos, videos, audio notes, as well as contacts. It’s available on iPhones, Android, Blackberry, and Symbian^3
Nicole
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 12:41 PMOr just use Google Map’s Latitude on your Android phone.
Andrew
Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 3:15 PM“I’m at the pub geo:-37.801631,144.980294;u=16″
Open standards will save us all.