Software Idea

[HiJAK]

Can someone make an app like the parking app on the iphone, would this be straight forward to do, basically when you park your car you load the app and press a button and this adds a pushpin to google maps, then when you want to find your car you can reload that push pin.

Is this something that would be hard to do?

[Riel]

Park the car, and wait for a fix ... :eek:

[HiJAK]

but surely if you were already using something like tomtom you'd already have a fix.

[Riel]

WEll, I mostly drive in places I already know :)


* well * there I would remember where I have parked the car though :rolleyes:


You got a point :)

But it won't work in parking garages.
But you could take a GPS foto ? :)

[HiJAK]

obviously it would be pointless for places you know but if you drove somewhere you didnt know you'd probably use the sat nav and have a gps fix, how do u take a gps photo?

The app on the iphone lets you press on button and that saves the location, then when you want to return to the car you can either see the location on google maps or get directions to the location, I thought that was quiet a good idea and was surprised there was nothing like that for windows mobile.

[MikLSP]

I did this at the weekend, not because I wouldn't be able to find my car, just because I thought of the idea and tried it out.
I used garmin to navigate to my destination and then once I parked simply added current location to my saved locations as "car" then later plan a route back to it, works a treat.

For GPS photos you need to activate the GPS photo mode in the camera which is mysteriously disabled by default along with sport mode and burst! The easiest way to do this is to install Advanced Config Tool (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=418151) and activate the setting in there

[HiJAK]

if you use gps photo to take a photo how do u get the coordinates off and into a gps program automatically.

[Radeon123]

Much easier to just park the car, save the location as a favourite in your sat nav app like TomTom, when you need to find the car, just navigate to a favourite called car :rolleyes:, been doing that for a long time and it works just fine, last time I did it was when I parked my car in London when I went there for a day trip, first time I have driven to London, TomTom showed me the way back to the car, would never have found it otherwise :)

[fyew-jit-tiv]

Park the car, and wait for a fix ... :eek:


:DLMFAO:D best read off the day.!

[Brevi]

Anybody remember the Seinfeld episode, in which they forgot where they parked the car?
It was in a parking garage, so no gps, but hilarious anyway.

[screwloose]

I did this at the weekend, not because I wouldn't be able to find my car, just because I thought of the idea and tried it out.
I used garmin to navigate to my destination and then once I parked simply added current location to my saved locations as "car" then later plan a route back to it, works a treat.

For GPS photos you need to activate the GPS photo mode in the camera which is mysteriously disabled by default along with sport mode and burst! The easiest way to do this is to install Advanced Config Tool (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=418151) and activate the setting in there


sorry must be going blind. Any change of pointing out where th eGPK photo option is in the advance config tool?

Thanks

[HiJAK]

tried the gpsphoto today but could not get a gps signal, kept saying initialising gps, any ideas?