ShortGPS.com starts with an Online tool to provide a shortener service to shorten a postal Address or GPS coordinate. After using it a lot in communties as Twitter we put further features on it to send tweets directly from ShortGPS to Twitter.
Locations to share we call POI’s (Point of Interest). A POI can be everything who is related to a position. Use the Google Map to find the exact position and after creating a ShortGPS URL you have made a POI.
Who will use ShortGPS?
Users in communities like twitter or forums to share a location
What problem will be solved?
To tell someone with a dedicated and short information a geo position
What could be an example?
You will tell your friends where you will meet them for dinner and and you will send a 100% dedicated geolocalized information incl. a map and GPS coordinates.
- click on www.shortgps.com
- enter the address or GPS code
- move the marker to the correct position
- check the zoomlevel for the best result
- change the map to sat. or hybrid mode if needed
- create your own URL name
- copy the shortgps.com URL and send it to your network or send a tweet
With ShortGPS we will push the way how to use and to communicate GPS information. Since the market and usage of GPS featured mobile devices is growing, people like it to use XY coordinates as an add on to localized information. Microblogging services as twitter help us to transmit it to a worldwide community platform.