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Hi,

A couple of years ago I sent a mail to lv-ab (a sister mailing-list to
this one - which I also lurk on), asking some questions about how to work
out distance between two lat/long points on the Earth's surface. A whole
flurry of very helpful replies came back, telling me about the Great
Circle route and how to calculate it etc.

Anyway, this sparked an interest, and we're now going live on a new
location-based search engine, called A2B, which should be of interest to
navigation-aware people:

http://www.a2b.cc

Free GPS software, called GPSCookie, which allows you to upload your
current position from your GPS device (if you've also got an Internet
connection), and a site which allows you to search for the sites nearest
to your position, returning their distance and (rounded to compass point)
bearing. You can also add your own sites (or someone else's).

Anyway, it's just going into early beta-testing and we'd really appreciate
some feedback (preferably in our forum at http://forum.a2b.cc although
here or elsewhere would be fine too) on how the software/site work if
people have a moment to try it....

Many thanks in advance,

Sam

PS I've had a couple of questions about whether there's any "spyware"
involved. The software runs in the foreground, only uploads your position
when you ask it to, and if you wish to remain 100% anonymous you can sign
up with a Hotmail account or something.


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A2B Location-Based Search Engine - search for nearby links
See http://www.a2b.cc for details
Get our free GPS Software and upload your current position
Add your own links - great for geocaching

   

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