Most of the smart phones and mobile phones come with built-in GPS hardware to make use of GPS to find the location. Even laptops, netbooks and tablets have built-in GPS sensors. Microsoft latest OS Windows 7 has a built-in location platform and API that allow third-party developers to build native application that are location-aware.
However unlike other OSes, specifically OS X, Microsoft made the fatal flaw of not integrating a default geolocation provider, thus developers could not take advantage of this until Windows 7 PCs started shipping with GPS sensors, which hasn’t happened yet.
Long Zheng of iStartedsomething & Rafael Reviera of WithinWindow has comeup with an excellent alternative before OEM starts developing applications and software utilizing Windows 7 Geo APIs. They have developed an Geosense for Windows, a Windows 7 Sensor deriver that connects the location platform with geolocation service providers who include but is not limited to Google Location Services.
Geosense in Action
Geosense is free software driven location sensor for Windows 7 32-bit and 64-bit. You can head over to geosenseforwindows.com to download Geosense for Windows.
