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Friday, November 30. 2007

The Tech Behind "Find a Loo"

Oops LBS
This description of how a "find the nearest" app which is spreading outside Westminster in the UK works is quite interesting:
With SatLav, all the user needs to do is type 'toilet' on his or her mobile phone and send it to a particular number. Satellites, which use technology similar to that of Global Positioning Systems (GPS), will then match the postcode of the phone user with that of the nearest toilet and send the details to the user. Each message would cost the user 25p and the council 9p.

I tried to find the website for the the service, SatLav (clever name!) and came up short. Perhaps that's why there's a bit of confusion on how it works?

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Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Oops, LBS at 08:07 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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You don't what to know exactly what popped into my brain while reading your last couple remarks, Adena. But I shall concede that it had much to do with imagining someone in the midst of a personal crisis, involving the unfortunate phenomenon known as the 'turtle-head'.

I am a strange man. And I am proud.
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