subject: GTX Corp (OTCBB: GTXO) Launches GPS Camera App on iTunes [print this page] GTX Corp (OTCBB: GTXO) Launches GPS Camera App on iTunes
The new GPS Camera app from GTX Corp GeoTags photos and let's you upload images to Facebook or email to friends is now available on iTunes. The app has been described as an essential tool for contractors to record the course of projects, journalists to validate events and interviews, writers gathering research, insurance adjusters and parents that want to chronicle their family's journey.
We are capable of collecting many millions of images in our lifetimes owing to digital imaging advancements, but cataloging them all can be made a simple task with time and location stamps. GeoTagging adds geographical identification data to a variety of media. Its biggest growth area is online and mobile media in the form of navigation apps and personal location-based services (PLS). It is mostly used to ID photos or images. The spread of GPS, coupled with the huge improvements in the quality of cameras on handsets, means that many users have now bought into device convergence - their phone is also their digital camera. The ubiquity of the iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Microsoft Mobile 7 and Samsung bada Platforms clearly attests to this. Still having a hard time wondering exactly how 2 way GPS works and why the technology is planting itself snuggly into our everyday lives? This EE Times design was written by Patrick Bertagna, the Chairman, CEO, and Founder of GTX Corp and co-inventor of the award winning patented GPS Shoe technology.
Essentially, the article explains how a GPS tracking systems work. Here's an interesting excerpt: The Importance of GPS systems GPS is important because it helps you to figure out where you are and where you are going when you are traveling from one place to another. Navigation and positioning are important but cumbersome activities, which GPS makes it easier. Once GPS locates your position, and then it starts tracing other factors like speed, bearing, tracks, trip distance, sunrise/sunset time, distance to destination and several other details. GPS uses 'man-made' stars as reference points to calculate positions accurate to a matter of meters.
However, with recent forms of GPS you can make measurements much better than centimeter readings. So it is with the aid of GPS that you can give a unique and specified address to every square meter on the planet. So these days GPS finds its way into cars, planes, boats, construction equipments, smartphones, laptop computers and shoes (www.gpsshoe.com) and belts. In addition, GPS tracking system installed in the phone can greatly help an individual to get automated GPS information through their cell phones.
