"GPSSendIt"isaverysimpleapptoquicklyshareyourLatitude,LongitudeandgeneraladdresslocationasprovidedbyGoogleServices.ThisappwasdevelopedbyaWildlandFirefighterwhowaslookingforanohasslemeanstoquicklysharelocationinformationinthewildlanduniformstandard(Fireaviation)GPSformatofDegrees,DecimalMinutes.Thisonlyhasonescreen,nomappingfunction,andonlythreefunctionbuttons.
Tousetheappsimplyopentheapplication,waitfortheGPSfixuponsatellitereception,entereitheraphonenumberoremailaddressmanually,orusethecontactpickerto[select]someonefromyourphone'sstorage,andclicktheSendPositionbutton.Informationwillbecopiedintoyourdefaulttextmessageapplication.Atthatpointyoucansendthetextasusualorchoosetoeditthemessagepriortosending.Whentherecipientopensthetext,theLat/Long,theaddressgiven(ifavailable),andaGoogleMaphyperlinkwillbedisplayedthatwillopenintheirdefaultmappingapplicationwithasingletap.
GPSendisnotlimitedtoonlywildfireuse,it'suseextendsintomanyotherpracticalareas.Sharelocationwhenmeetingsomeoneforcoffee,lunch,oranyothermeetinglocation.Greatwhilehikingtoshareyourdestination.
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