Whilst many LBS present scenarios for users searching for Points of Interest (POI) that are proximate to the current location whereas geo-wands the commonly observed practice of horizon scanning in which users seek out interesting landmarks within their field of vision of direction of travel (often by pointing at them). This phenomenon is particularly prevalent amongst tourists who often scan their surrounding for interesting buildings or objects which they may then look up on a tourist map to find additional information. Point ‘n’ Seek facilitates this process through a novel gesture based control mechanism using the accelerometers and compass enabling users simply point at the object the wish to have information about.

3D Lancaster

Locoblog

LocoBlog consists of a J2ME client application that allows you to link up your phone via Bluetooth to a GPS unit and then create blogs of text and pictures which are the tagged with positional data such as latitude and longitude. The blog is then sent to the LocoBlog Site( via GPRS) where it can be viewed on Google Maps. The service is currently free to use and the application can be downloaded from the site.

Widget Maps

LocoMash (www.locomash.com)

Locomash is a mobile mass observation system to allow groups of individuals equipped with mobile camera phones and GPS to create real time spatial and temporal photographic mash-ups around particular events or places.

LocoMash of the Wray Festival