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cord frederic romberg replied on October 10, 2008 23:54 to the question "Testing iphone native application, need any help?" in Brightkite:

if you need beta testers after the first phase i would love to apply;-)

cord frederic romberg replied on October 10, 2008 23:53 to the question "Is there a date for an iPhone App?" in Brightkite:

is the iphone app gonna be free or pay???

cord frederic romberg replied on October 10, 2008 23:52 to the idea "One more radius setting - 20 km" in Brightkite:

good thing, the max. of 4km is a little low... especailly in areas with few users...

cord frederic romberg started following the idea "One more radius setting - 20 km" in Brightkite.

cord frederic romberg replied on October 08, 2008 18:03 to the question "GPS and WPS with Google Maps on a windows mobile phone ?" in Loki:

if you want to use WPS you have to pay a fee...

apple pays skyhook, the owner of loki, a fee for every iphone sold, since every iphone is able to use WPS...

i have not hear from any other smartphone that is WPS enabled, i think the manufacturers are a little shortsighted not to include WPS in their location service engine... google maps just uses the data supplied by that engine...

the only other device WPS enabled right now is the EyeFi wifi SD card that stores pictures from cameras and geotags them on the fly... and loki, but that's skyhook, they have an interest in getting the WPS into more apps on notebooks... but i think apps that use WPS on non-smartphones devices have to pay royalties as well... NetworkLocation is an app using WPS on the mac... http://networklocationapp.com/

i would suggest contacting the people @ skyhookwireless.com directly... loki is just responsible for loki, not the skyhook part...

cord frederic romberg replied on September 26, 2008 20:42 to the question "How long will it take for my data to show up?" in Skyhook Wireless:

make avbsolute sense... quite an undertaking to track this down...!!!

my guess is that now it will work as advertised;-)

cord frederic romberg replied on September 16, 2008 22:32 to the question "How long will it take for my data to show up?" in Skyhook Wireless:

regarding the eyeFi, it could be that the wifi antenna of that device is much weaker than your notebooks antenna, thus not getting a fix...??? but normally it should work just fine...

the normal setting for WPS to work acceptable is in metro areas with some wifi signals available, not just one house in sight which might or might not have internet/a wifi AP...

cord frederic romberg replied on September 16, 2008 22:29 to the question "How long will it take for my data to show up?" in Skyhook Wireless:

and i would only use loki to submit APs @ certain locations... works faster and much less messy... no need to fire up wifi sniffer apps and to xopy and paste their repsective mac addresses...

cord frederic romberg replied on September 16, 2008 22:28 to the question "How long will it take for my data to show up?" in Skyhook Wireless:

it's weird that you get a fix in loki and in others apps or hardware it does not work...

did you try the locate me auto mode??? if that works it is in the system...

cord frederic romberg replied on September 16, 2008 16:39 to the question "How long will it take for my data to show up?" in Skyhook Wireless:

maybe you sent in something wrong, like the wrong mac address? you need to enter the mac address of your router, not your own airport/wifi card!!!

did you get an email from skyhook acknowledging your entry? if not it didn't go thru, if yes, and after 3 weeks it still doesn't show, use loki under firefox 2, and manually place yourself, telling the system where you are with the wifi mac address the OS tells the loki engine it sees, that way no need to copy and paste the mac addresses or the possibility to enter the wrong mac address/es... the loki.com way is also faster than skyhookwirless.com...!!! if you did both it might be that the system canceled the entry due to 2 different location for one mac address.... just use one this time...

and you can reach ryan directly via AIM for example... just use his full name:-)

cord frederic romberg replied on August 10, 2008 00:49 to the question "Can Loki work with Google earth?" in Loki:

no, no GE implementation...

i'd love to have a networked kmz that shows loki/WPS coverage, as well as the loki layers like trapster and stuff...

cord frederic romberg replied on July 22, 2008 01:22 to the problem "Getting my location is very unprecise (compared with the previews Twinkle)" in Tapulous:

i think if you tell that to a new yorker, that it doesn't matter if it says new york city or iraq, the reaction would be quite strong... LOL..

cord frederic romberg replied on July 22, 2008 00:17 to the idea "MAP option??? (and metric needs to be added too, ASAP)" in Tapulous:

then turn it off be default, or a checkbox when signing up if people want to be on the map...

cord frederic romberg replied on July 21, 2008 19:23 to the question "Incorrect location from WiFi locate?" in Loki:

submit again, and use loki

cord frederic romberg replied on July 21, 2008 19:10 to the problem "Getting my location is very unprecise (compared with the previews Twinkle)" in Tapulous:

do you get a location in google maps???

cord frederic romberg replied on July 21, 2008 13:26 to the problem "Getting my location is very unprecise (compared with the previews Twinkle)" in Tapulous:

as to the impreciseness: sometimes the iphone uses the GSM-triangulation as the geo data for the location...

you need to quit twinkle and wait for the iphone to get the WPS (wifi) or GPS geolocation!!! then you're very precisely located!!!

cord frederic romberg replied on July 21, 2008 13:24 to the problem "Getting my location is very unprecise (compared with the previews Twinkle)" in Tapulous:

i rather have a map view than the very general location info as text... it would be so much nice to see who where on a map, google preferably! yahoo maps sucks in europe, very low resolution satellite footage... google is almost everywhere high resolution aerial footage!

cord frederic romberg shared an idea in Tapulous on July 21, 2008 13:22:

MAP option??? (and metric needs to be added too, ASAP)

please add map view to the "nearby" option. and please add metric! just miles doesn't cut it in europe!!!

cord frederic romberg replied on July 21, 2008 13:20 to the problem "Twinkle used to work, now crashes on launch" in Tapulous:

same here, and it's easy to pin on the avatars... everything works fine until twinkle needs to load avatars...

the strange thing is in the beginning it worked fine...

cord frederic romberg replied on July 21, 2008 05:54 to the question "Incorrect location from WiFi locate?" in Loki:

it takes up to a week for the database to update...

i think loki is faster: http://www.loki.com/ (firefox 2), locate yourself, everything is automated, no need to enter data manually. follow the install instructions.