application idea

[Giles Jones]

On 12 Sep 2007, at 20:30, Jeff Andros wrote:

> Last night, while I was looking at the monsoon blowing just outside  
> the heat-island... in my open-top jeep... I had an application  
> idea: GPS based weather feeds.
>
> on a schedule/when you move into a new area, the phone will go out  
> to a server and retrieve the weather information for the area  
> you're in.
>
> being able to glance at the today screen and see up-to-date weather  
> data would be nice
>

What you suggest are what people call Location Based Services and  
there's plenty of ideas for such things.

Find local services, taxi, food, hotel.

Warn of weather.

Local news.

Have a read:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Location-based_service