Comments on: The Over Here iPhone App – by Ed Lea in London

By: Kip Hakes

Kip Hakes — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:34:00 +0000

Would it work the other way round.. sending the e-mail from Nokia Maps with the .lmz attachment an opening it on the iPhone?

By: James Whatley

James Whatley — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 13:19:32 +0000

Ok so we tried this on Friday while we were trying to meet for Episode 17 of the Podcast and this is what happened:

1) Ewan emailed his 'I'm over here!' link to my Yahoo account.
2) I logged into http://m.yahoo.com to read it... which I did, but I couldn't click.
3) So then I tried logging into http://beta.m.yahoo.com... which I did, and I could click.
4) I clicked.
5) I got a fail. http://m.google.com didn't like the http://maps.google.com link that I was giving it.

Bah.

By: Kip Hakes

Kip Hakes — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:34:00 +0000

Would it work the other way round.. sending the e-mail from Nokia Maps with the .lmz attachment an opening it on the iPhone?

By: Kip Hakes

Kip Hakes — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:34:00 +0000

Would it work the other way round.. sending the e-mail from Nokia Maps with the .lmz attachment an opening it on the iPhone?

By: James Whatley

James Whatley — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:19:32 +0000

By: mostlythis

mostlythis — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:39:32 +0000

sports tracker has live location sharing via the sportstracker site.
http://sportstracker.nokia.com/

actually sports tracker is awesome and is for way more than just jogging.

By: mostlythis

mostlythis — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:36:10 +0000

yep screengrabs is the portable option - but as its emailing - chances are the user is on a comp.

could have a list of options - mms / email screengrab. nokia maps info - google maps etc
but gets messy handling other software/handsets.

while were plugging - how about my vapourware

http://mostlythis.com/post/44929237/app-store-o...
coat my get I'll

By: James Whatley

James Whatley — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:10:59 +0000

Try it and see.

By: James Whatley

James Whatley — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:10:36 +0000

Re screenshots – that's what I do too… Save messin' about.
Or – in the case of my recent fancy dress picnic – I send them a link to a Mippin page with the directions already prepared…

By: South77

South77 — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:02:41 +0000

off topic somewhat…I'm using a Nokia N95 (with GPS)… is there an app/service that allwos me to show my location on a web page to other people in real time? a consumer-grade tracking service, I guess.

By: TerenceEden

TerenceEden — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:54:27 +0000

That would require registering a handler on the phone...
If you send the link as gmaps://123123123 then it might pick it up.
Or you could send a link to Google's mobile pages.
Or a SMS with a special PID which the phone would pass to Gmaps...
Quite tricky with the current mobile architecture.

Truth be told, I usually take a screenshot of the map and MMS it!

Actually, it really annoys me that Google Maps Mobile has no integration with the web version. I want to be able to see the maps I've created on the web on my phone.

By: Kip Hakes

Kip Hakes — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:21:23 +0000

Hmm maybe not such a walled garden – sending from Nokia Maps attaches a .lmz file – can't google maps read those?

By: Kip Hakes

Kip Hakes — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:20:32 +0000

It will – and don't call me shirley..

By: smstextnews

smstextnews — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:16:06 +0000

it'll bring up a web google maps link, surely?

By: Kip Hakes

Kip Hakes — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:14:11 +0000

True.. I'd be VERY suprised if it worked..

By: smstextnews

smstextnews — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:14:08 +0000

hold on

By: James Whatley

James Whatley — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:12:19 +0000

WALLED GARDEN!!!

I want Ewan to (be able to) send me a link from his iPhone, to my N95. Then I want Google Maps to boot up and show me what he did on his iPhone.

By: Kip Hakes

Kip Hakes — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:07:54 +0000

You can do it in Nokia Maps – as in send your location to someone via sms or email.

By: James Whatley

James Whatley — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:59:37 +0000

Is it worth a cheeky piece of code allowing the non-iphone-owning-yet-google-mapped-up folk have a go?

ie: I'd love to be able to click that link and let it just boot up Google Maps on my N95…

Send us a link Ewan – lets see what happens