PocketGPSWorld.com announced the release of CamerAlert on the Apple AppStore today. Priced at £0.59 it is available now from the Apple AppStore.
CamerAlert is a Speed and Red Light Camera warning system for iPhones based on the popular PocketGPSWorld.com Speed Camera Database. It provides both audible and visual warnings as you approach a camera. When you are in a section of SPECs or Average Speed Cameras CamerAlert keeps track of your average speed to ensure you are aware of your average speed between each camera. To cut down on the number of “False Alerts” you are only warned for cameras that monitor your direction of travel.
Mobile Commerce has partnered with the AA, a UK motoring organisation and travel publisher, to deliver the AA ‘Best of Britain’ iPhone application. The application provides all the information the user needs to find and book a weekend, or week, away in Britain and acts as a guide locating local entertainment and points of interest.
Traffic Media UK is an iPhone app, and one that offers access to regional traffic radio reports and Motorway network cameras. It doesn’t use GPS but for anyone planning a long journey over the holiday break it might prove useful.
Using a simple map interface you can hear reports for your region and look at still photos from motorway cameras to check traffic and, given the current snow, weather conditions.
Currently Traffic Radio is only available for England but Alerts are available for the whole of the UK. You can choose which alerts you wish to receive and at £1.19 it’s cheap and simple solution that works well.
For more information see the Traffic Media web site at www.trafficmediauk.com or download from the iTunes Appstore.
If you are a sailor and want to keep an electronic version of your logbook then RockAByte may have the answer for you with the JourSail application available in the AppStore. This app basically allows you to record pertinent data of your voyage, and then send it via email to friends and family.
The GPS and iPhone clock are used to timestamp and log position with each entry. Each entry can be displayed on an interactive map. I assume that this is over the wireless connection which, of course will not be available at sea…
Available for £3.49 or $5.99 this seems to be somewhat overpriced for the functionality provided.
TubeDeluxe is the perfect utility application. Based on the most simple of ideas, it fulfils a common need and does it in a way that is both simpler and far better than any existing solution.
Tube Planner apps have existed on most platforms for some years, indeed PocketPC’s had a very well popular one from VisualIT, Tube. But TubeDeluxe is much better.
Route Planner
Author Malcolm Barclay has produced a very slick application that allows you to plan journeys across London via the Underground. It also has up to the minute information on delays and closures as well as a departure timetable.
Itinerary Route map
You can plan a journey by entering your start and destination and TubeDeluxe will plan the route and display it either on the Tube Map or as a simple Itinerary.
A great feature is the use of GPS to determine your location. Using this information it can provide information on your nearest tube stations, novel and effective.
In use it proved both quick and stable. Fire it up and you are immediately presented with the Status page that lists all the tube lines and any issues that affect them such as planned works or delays. Click on a line and it will provide detailed status information. Continue reading »
Not the best kept secret perhaps but TomTom took centre stage at Apple’s WWDC yesterday with their Satnav for iPhone application.
With Garmin concentrating on their nuvifone product the kudos was all TomTom’s as they got to reveal their new solution to the WWDC attendees.
TomTom CTO Peter-Frans Pauwels demonstrated the new car cradle that will be an option with TomTom’s SatNav app. Interestingly this cradle contains its own GPS receiver which is an admittance at least in part that the receiver in the iPhone 3G is poor.
The cradle also contains a loudspeaker and so as well as providing charge to the iPhone offers a hands-free speakerphone feature.
The app will have TomTom’s IQ Routes functionality but more detailed information has yet to be revealed. Availability expected to coincide with the release of OS 3.0 with the cradle following some time later.
Hot on the heels of the unveiling of TomTom’s iPhone SatNav at the WWDC yesterday comes Navigon with news of their iPhone solution.
Navigon’s turn by turn navigation application will be available in the Appstore later this month, called MobileNavigator, it will be compatible with both the iPhone 3G and 3G S models that have OS 3.0 installed.
Amongst its long line of features, MobileNavigator will have Reality View Pro, Real Roadsign Pro, Lane Assistant Pro, Speed Assistant and Day & Night Mode.
2 versions will be available, full MobileNavigator and FREE MobileNavigator Lite No pricing has been announced at time of writing.
G-Park from Posimotion is a neat little iPhone application that helps you find your car when you park it in a town that you are not familiar with. This happened to me the other day when I went to Cambridge with some friends.
G-Park for iPhone main screen
When you park your car you fire up G-Park and you hit the “Park Me!” button. This fires up the GPS to get your current location and stores it as the point to get you back to later.
I was in a multi-story car park so there was no GPS signal. I had a rough location from cell triangulation, but this wasnt good enough for me. I solved this quite simply by exiting the car park and starting again.
You can also take a picture and make notes about your location. I was parked on deck E in bay 52, so I made a quick note of this and off we went sight seeing.
G-Park for iPhone directions
I dont know if you are like me, but in a strange city I can often loose my sense of direction especially if I am chatting and taking photos rather than concentrating on where I am going.
G-Park really comes to the fore here. When you are ready to find your car simply start G-Park and then tap the “Where Did I Park?” icon and you will be taken to Maps with your current location and the car position together with a highlighted route to get there.
All you need to do now is follow the instructions and you will be directed to the place that you left the car. Simple!!!
PocketGPSWorld.com announced the release of CamerAlert on the Apple AppStore today. Priced at £0.59 it is available now from the Apple AppStore.
Traffic Media UK is an iPhone app, and one that offers access to regional traffic radio reports and Motorway network cameras. It doesn’t use GPS but for anyone planning a long journey over the holiday break it might prove useful.
TubeDeluxe is the perfect utility application. Based on the most simple of ideas, it fulfils a common need and does it in a way that is both simpler and far better than any existing solution.
G-Park from Posimotion is a neat little iPhone application that helps you find your car when you park it in a town that you are not familiar with. This happened to me the other day when I went to Cambridge with some friends.
