Location Applications on Android

Zoe Zhang

Basic GPS Applications

• Provide Altitude, Speed, Acceleration• Provide Directions

Position by Wifi

• Position by Wifi

Navigation Applications• Provide on-line or off-line maps• Calculate route to the destination• Most navigation applications provide following services

– Basic Services• Point of Interest• Navigation in voice• Planning Trip• Recording trace• Speeding Warning

– Friendly user experience• Huge Data• Fast location• Good route plan• Easy to search destination

– Value added services• Real time traffic• Free map update• BBS to share trace(路书 )

Plenty of Navigation Applications

Special Navigators----Navidog•LBS Solution

•LBS Server calculate the route• Bus• Walk• Drive

• Cooperate with Operators•China Telecom•China Unicom•China Mobile

Location As Value Added Services in Applications

Location of Photo/SMS

• Record the Lat/Long when taking photos or sending SMS

Find Nearest POI

• Restaurant, Gas Stations, Stops, Hospitals, Shopping Malls….

Find Nearest People

• Find your friends/lover• Chat with your neighbors (与邻居MM聊天

^_^)

Society Based on Location • 街旁网是一个基于位置的服务 (LBS)，让你的网络生活和真实生活更紧密的结合。你可以使用街旁网来“签到”所处地点，用数字化方式记录足迹。在一些地点签到后，你可以收集到有趣的徽章（如“披荆斩棘”徽章，“世博会艺术珍品”徽章系列等），多次签到一个地点还能成为“地主”！在街旁的合作伙伴处，你可以凭徽章或地主身份换取折扣和奖品。你也可以将街旁最新动向同步到人人、开心、豆瓣和新浪微博等 SNS，与朋友们随时互动！

Share Location on SNS

• Facebook, Twriter, Kaixin001….

Funny Applications

• Record your running trace

Funny Applications

• Destination Alarm– It will ring when you arrive destination so that you

could sleep on bus ^_^

Funny Applications

• Find your stolen phone– If the SIM card changes, or the PIN code fails,

sending SMS with location to the predefined number.

Funny Applications

• Send SMS with Location when car accident– If the “Gravity Detector” detects the hit, it will

send SMS with location to the predefined number.

Funny Applications

• Find your car in the big parking area– Record your location when parking, then you

could find your car later.