My wife loves the fact that she’s a guinea pig and has a GPS tracking device in her car… (not really)
But it comes in handy really often to know where she & the kids are. This article shows how quick and convenient it is to use GPS Insight to answer real questions in a useful way, daily.
I was heading out of the office, waiting at the light to head to the store, and a car that looked like hers drove by toward our home. All the cars in Scottsdale look the same and all the windows are tinted, and we don’t have a vanity license plate I can remember (which probably is the way to know it’s my car…). I wasn’t sure if it was her heading home from somewhere or just one of the other thousand SUV’s in town.
I thought maybe she would want to turn around and grab dinner with the kids where I was going.
But I didn’t know if it was her car or not, so I pulled out my iPhone & checked the map of all our vehicles.
Within seconds, I knew it was her, thanks to the GPS Insight fleet tracking product.
Here’s how I did it in 10 seconds:
I simply refreshed the link for GPS Insight’s “Mobile Maps” then “zoomed down” to my location using the “zoom to me” button (I don’t know what it’s called, but I have an arrow pointing to it below). Clicking on the vehicle just North of the intersection shows it’s my wife’s vehicle (Nav2):
Quick map tells me it was my wife (Nav2) who just drove by
Then just to show I’m really at the light waiting to turn left, I click on the pin there (I have 2 devices in my car so both are me):
Me at the light waiting to turn left
Then I can show where the cars & the office are using Google Maps’ street view (by pressing the little orange guy shown above):
Google mobile Maps shows the intersection where I'm sitting, etc.
This isn’t life & death or even business, but gives a good illustration of how fast you can answer questions about where people are at (or perhaps which of your techs just blew a red light in front of you a second ago).
10 seconds, and you’ve got your answer.
Rob.
August 12th, 2010 4:25 pm
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