During todays media event, Apple took time to recap key iOS5 features, that most of us already knew about, but they also announced a new one: Find My Friends.
During todays media event, Apple took time to recap key iOS5 features, that most of us already knew about, but they also announced a new one: Find My Friends. Using ‘Find My Friends’ you can easily locate friends and family – in the real world – who have opted to share their location with you. You can also invite friends to share their location for a limited time – which will be helpful if you need to five them directions.
The site lets you upload your location data from your iOS device, securely store it and explore it via a map interface. It is an anonymous, user-contributed database for the personal location data files recorded by iOS devices.
Together with a few colleagues at NYTimes R&D, for the last week Jer Thorp has been working on a project called openpaths.cc. The site lets you upload your location data from your iOS device, securely store it and explore it via a map interface. It is an anonymous, user-contributed database for the personal location data files recorded by iOS devices. You can securely store and manage your personal location data, and grant researchers access to portions of that data as you choose.
