Handheld Users "Trading Places" With Latest Release of Earthcomber
New version of personal navigator software allows users to mark their favorite locations on maps and share those locations with other users.
Chicago (PRWEB via MobilityNewswire) March 9,
2005 — Earthcomber LLC today announced new features of its freeware personal
navigator that allow users to mark and share places on the map. The
much-anticipated Earthcomber Version 1.2 lets users mark their favorite places
on maps, either on their Palm-powered devices or directly on the Web, and then
share those places through private and public groups in the Earthcomber
community.
"The vision for Earthcomber is to allow users to exchange
points of interest on the map," said Earthcomber founder Jim Brady. "We're
putting people in charge of their own experience, and with this release of
Earthcomber, people can graduate from being recipients of information to being
mappers of their own worlds."
Earthcomber users can mark places of
interest as they travel, making field notes while the software provides the map
coordinates and other details. Users with GPS (Global Positioning System) will
be automatically positioned on Earthcomber maps. Users without GPS can use the
maps to position themselves. The break-away feature, however, is that users can
then share their own locations in Earthcomber's new “community”
area.
Locations can be shared with public groups, or kept in private,
member-only groups. Users who join a group can load that group's locations onto
their own Palm-powered devices, or browse the locations on the web. For example,
if one member of a bird-watching group marks 20 new spots for viewing birds, and
a second member marks 30 new spots, all members of the group get access to the
50 new spots.
The new features of Earthcomber provide users with
numerous applications:
* Personal travel and adventure: Create a map of
an upcoming trip that contains all the places you intend to go, and then use the
Palm as a mobile vacation guide. During the trip, you can mark memorable spots
such as highlights or discoveries. You can store these spots in "plogs" (map
logs) that can be kept private or opened to the public for read-only
viewing.
* Family connections: Mark family homes, ancestor gravesites,
family reunion sites, and places of genealogical interest. These places can then
be made available to other family members.
* Interest groups: Mark the
best places for jogging, hiking, photography, railroad spotting
* Work:
Mark the locations of customers, job sites, suppliers, and other spots of
interest to co-workers.
* Events: Create mobile event maps that help
participants find key spots during conventions and festivals.
Earthcomber
also comes preloaded with nearly 1.5 million places of interest, including
stores, services, attractions, historical sites, and more. Earthcomber can
notify users about the closest library, post office, shopping mall, hospital, or
police station. Nature lovers can quickly find the nearest park, mountain
summit, hiking trail, lava flow, glacier, waterfall, lake, and many more natural
features.
Earthcomber also contains over 50,000 sites from the National
Register of Historic Places. Users can personalize their experience by
indicating exactly the types of places they want to see on their maps.
Earthcomber is free for users. Users can download the software along
with free digital maps for any county in the United States at www.earthcomber.com.
Businesses can list their locations on Earthcomber for as little as $35 per
year.
Earthcomber community groups can be viewed directly at www.earthcomber.com/community
Earthcomber is currently
available on PDAs and smart phones powered by the Palm OS®, version 3.5 or
higher. A version for Windows Mobile™ devices will be available later in 2005.
Palm OS and Palm Powered are trademarks or registered trademarks of
PalmSource, Inc. or its affiliates in the United States, France, Germany, Japan,
the United Kingdom, and other countries. Windows Mobile is a registered
trademark of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other
countries.
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