GPS Battleship Game in Google Earth
Thank god I opened my feedreader this morning, or I’d never have known about the Battleship: Google Earth mashup that’s being created by Julian Bleecker at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg Center for Communication. (Actually, thank Ogle Earth.) Bleecker is hacking together a system whereby one player plunks down a huge battleship in Google Earth (just like in the old Milton Bradley game), and the other tries to bomb it — only to do this you have to visit a real location with your GPS-enabled phone, dial in to the game engine, and say “drop.” The game puts a big red peg at your location — which is hopefully close enough to sink your opponent’s battleship.
Bleecker has already coded some early functionality that allows one player to bomb the other, and is working on more. I’m not big on mobile gaming, but this seems like a really excellent mashup to me. Great idea.
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Is there any way that I can be traced using a GPS reciver thorugh internet, like if am outside and my GPS is working is there any application by which anybody can trace me sitting on computer?
Soon to join all the storm chasers and earthquake tracers will be the G Map Battleship tracers.