You'll remember Tagggit from my AAS video interview with SkyHook? It's a geospatial social networking tool for S60, i.e. it uses SkyHook's databases of urban Wi-Fi hotspots to find your location without GPS and annotate places and activities for others. Tagggit is now available in open beta, so anyone can try it out. See below for lots of screenshots of Tagggit and the official launch press release. Comments welcome after you've given this a try over the weekend?
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I dunno... wi-fi access points come and go so quickly, and many city areas don't have any public hotspots at all. Wouldn't it make more sense to base this round phone masts?
It found my position within meters of accuracy, indoors, and without using gps. 😮 Color me impressed.
Compare, where it detected me: http://www.tagggit.com/site/siteViewTag.aspx?ID=0c5b088b-c51e-4e76-9f77-daa7d9ad22fd# to where I was: http://maps.msu.edu/interactive/index.php?location=ub
Fernando20, try moving about though and see how it keeps up. One position might just be a fluke, the same way phone mast positioning sometimes is.
For those of you with N96, N85 and N79's this app should work just fine.
FYI .. don't even try to install "install 1, 2 & 3" from the tagggit download - just install #4 .. you should be all go .. once you configure your ID etc ..
I'm happy to report that city mode works quite well indoors (ie no GPS reception) here in Central Christchurch, New Zealand.
Hope this helps 😊
I am trying this beauty out and have registered an account but I cannot see anywhere if it's free or if there are costs (over the GPRS costs of course). Anyone know about this?
Hi Brian,
Yeah, Tagggit's completely free. As you said, it needs a data connection so the only cost is the network traffic charges.
This works well on my n96 as well. The "city mode" setting it way more accurate that just using the GPS setting. Its a beauty of an app. We need to see more of this kind of stuff!
yeah, just got a post on Mosh about this... so will check it out.