SMS = Send Mappings Sharpish

I’m not about to turn into one of those corporate evangelist bloggers, but I have to say this is pretty cool. Nokia have announced GPS snap-on covers for their 5140 model, which has the ability to send annotated GPS waypoints as SMS. Potentially connecting SMS hackery to geowankery.

If they are cheap enough, and could reach a sufficient mass of urban explorers, this could inspire a wave of ground-up collaborative mapping efforts.

The covers even make the jock-friendly ‘active sports phone’ acquire a geek-chic, in a kind of smokey-black Borg way…

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  1. Drift Surveillance

    Matt Jones points to Nokia’s Waypoint system. With a snap-on GPRS module, the 5140 phone can save your location, and send it via SMS.Link the Drift Table to a system like this – with the table receiving location data via…

  2. Drift Surveillance

    Matt Jones points to Nokia’s Waypoint system. With a snap-on GPRS module, the 5140 phone can save your location, and send it via SMS.Link the Drift Table to a system like this – with the table receiving location data via…

  3. Drift Surveillance

    Matt Jones points to Nokia’s Waypoint system. With a snap-on GPRS module, the 5140 phone can save your location, and send it via SMS.Link the Drift Table to a system like this – with the table receiving location data via…

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