I've been thinking recently about having the web guy who did up my last blog do up something new and more personal. While I've been pondering what features I want to include, I've been thinking about my intention to travel very soon, and how to integrate some blog functionality there.
The obvious thing to include is a twitter feed, but then I remembered a few months ago when someone posted a link to an article about this lingerie. It got me to wondering about integrating GPS functionality. I know you can geotag photographs on Flickr and stuff like that, and I'm sure there's a way to geotag blog posts, but how about including a real time (or slightly delayed) GPS tracker feed through Google Maps.
I know of Trackstick, but Tracksticks log location and time, and download all that data at the end of the day. I could take that, and post the geo-tracking info a day or two after the fact. But I was hoping there might be a service that will instead transmit location data live? Some sort of a passive GPS receiver that one could carry, that would transmit GPS location through the web or something.
I have heard of some parental devices that sound similar, and I've found websites that sell GPS hardware for cars, but they sort of need to be installed in a car. Is there anything person-sized that one could toss into (or sew into) a backpack or jacket that will do what I'm asking?
The obvious thing to include is a twitter feed, but then I remembered a few months ago when someone posted a link to an article about this lingerie. It got me to wondering about integrating GPS functionality. I know you can geotag photographs on Flickr and stuff like that, and I'm sure there's a way to geotag blog posts, but how about including a real time (or slightly delayed) GPS tracker feed through Google Maps.
I know of Trackstick, but Tracksticks log location and time, and download all that data at the end of the day. I could take that, and post the geo-tracking info a day or two after the fact. But I was hoping there might be a service that will instead transmit location data live? Some sort of a passive GPS receiver that one could carry, that would transmit GPS location through the web or something.
I have heard of some parental devices that sound similar, and I've found websites that sell GPS hardware for cars, but they sort of need to be installed in a car. Is there anything person-sized that one could toss into (or sew into) a backpack or jacket that will do what I'm asking?
