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Your universal mylocation url

geoterrestrial — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:02:11 +0000

If you are a GeoGroups or GPSToday user, you can now allow iPhone (or any other mobile platform) users to track your location via your Universal MyLocation Url, http://www.geoterrestrial.com/mylocation/username, for example http://www.geoterrestrial.com/mylocation/casper2.
Share this link with others to give anyone an easy way to request permission to see your location. Once the user has access, besides showing your location it will also allow the viewer to chat privately with you within the same web-page.

Note that this page will show anything only if you have explicitly shared your location, and only to users authorized by you. If you have shared your location in a public group which has no access restrictions, then your location will be visible to everyone.

GeoGroups now have friendly urls and RSS feeds with GeoRSS

geoterrestrial — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 00:01:20 +0000

The url scheme is significantly simplified. Groups now have friendly urls, for example weather alert would be http://www.geoterrestrial.com/groups/weather-alert/
This makes it easier to remember or pass around links to your groups. If the group name has special characters or spaces, replace with hyphens while typing in the address bar.

Additionally, now you can subscribe to an RSS feed for any group. Simply append /feed/ at the end of any group url, for example http://www.geoterrestrial.com/groups/fishing-spots/feed/ . Popular browsers should automatically show the orange RSS icon whenever a groups page is accessed. Also, since posts are “GeoPosts”, and this is a “Geo*” website, the RSS feed is GeoRSS enabled. Compatible GeoRSS clients can instantly show a geogroup’s RSS feed on a map. For example http://www.geoterrestrial.com/groups/khaytsus-public/feed/

Similarly, users now have their own pages at http://www.geoterrestrial/users/khaytsus/ , and an RSS feed for the user’s posts at http://www.geoterrestrial/users/khaytsus/feed/.

Also, even individual posts now have their own page, ala blogs. For example http://www.geoterrestrial.com/posts/680724/cracker-barrel/. An RSS feed for monitoring post comments will be added soon.

Remember, regardless of how any page is accessed, a visitor will only be able to see content he or she is specifically allowed to see. Posts which are listed in open public groups without any access restrictions will also gradually start showing up in web-search results.

-The GeoTerrestrial Team

GPSToday now adds geolocation to twitter posts

geoterrestrial — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:36:13 +0000

Now when you send a message to username twitter from GPSToday on your mobile device, and also enable “Add My Location”, your location will be posted to twitter’s new geolocation feature along with the status message.

-The GeoTerrestrial Team

Map or download your location history

geoterrestrial — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:30:22 +0000

If you have been tracking your location using the geoterrestrial platform, you can now access your location history on the website.
Click the History link in your My Location post to bring up a time-range selection. You can choose to show your past movements on the map, or download to file, or even attach pictures and publish it as a track in a group of your choice.

If you are a regular/individual user, note that you and you only can see your location history. Business group owners tracking employees or mobile assets can view and plot history for as many entities as required, simultaneously.

-The GeoTerrestrial Team

Speed traps now available in GPSToday in 6 countries

geoterrestrial — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:41:04 +0000

The speed traps group now has thousands of points across the US, UK, CA, DE, NL, including red-light camera locations. Join and browse on the desktop, or set a geoalert on your mobile device.

There has also been an update to the hot spot group with many more wifi hotspots added in many countries. A bunch of new groups also created for the UK, including train/tube station locations and more.

GeoTerrestrial Powers Geolocation For Worlds Highest Rally

geoterrestrial — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 03:01:22 +0000

The 11th Raid-de-Himalaya will pass through some of the most breathtakingly beautiful and yet, harsh terrains of the Western Himalayas. Rallyists will be climbing over some of the highest motorable passes in the world, including the Tanglang La, the second highest motorable pass in the world, and spending nights under sub-zero conditions at camps.

GeoTerrestrial was selected by the Himalayan Motorsport Association for providing real-time geolocation services for leg 1 for all vehicles in the X-Treme category. Not only will this give the organizers a birds-eye view of progress, assistance can be directed more optimally in case of an untoward incident since ambulances strategically placed along the route will also be geolocation enabled. And of course, by virtue of being hosted on the web-based geoterrestrial platform, anyone anywhere in the world can follow the event live from their desktop, right now at http://www.geoterrestrial.com/geogroups/?group=raid-de-himalaya