Location, Location, Location... and FakeGPS

It’s no secret that I believe location based services via mobile devices will absolutely change life as we know it. This is one of those areas where the business models needed to make LBS mainstream with every consumer out there are moving a lot slower than the technology itself. As a developer, you don’t have to wait on the rest of the world to catch up. If you are not using Live Search Mobile on your Windows Mobile phone, you need to check it out. This may be the most useful Windows Mobile app ever. Take a test drive to get your dev juices flowing.

 

Now that you are ready to build something on your own, the FakeGPS tool in the Windows mobile SDK is a great way to get started. My colleague, Rob Cameron, just posted an good article on the topic…check it out!

 

-Reed

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• Anonymous
  December 15, 2008
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• Anonymous
  January 02, 2009
  I just created a simpe console app in VS and pasted your code in verbatim...ran it on the WM6 Pro emulator after installing and starting the Fake GPS util and it worked as expected.. FakeGpsApp:GPSOpenDevice succeeded FakeGpsApp:GPSGetDeviceState succeeded ServiceState:1, DeviceState:1 Prefix:File, FriendlyName:TestGPSFile FakeGpsApp:GPSGetPosition succeeded ValidFields:262111, SatelliteCount:6 Latitude:-2084032663, Longitude:1078448410 Do you get any data if you swich to the dixies data file?  Let me know if you were not able to get this working... -Reed

• Anonymous
  January 29, 2009
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