The month of May in the app store has started off with roughly 45,000 applications, and 2,400 of those are geo-location based.  As usual, there was no lack of new and unique ways for developers to figure out how to incorporate location into their applications.  Here are a few of the ones that stood out this week…

After nearly a year of new applications helping to find your closest gas station, coffee shop, bank, and practically every type of business imaginable, the developers from MobileApp Topia  have managed to introduce us to iWaffles, proving location based services can be applied to the most specific of requests.  iWaffles is an application that will locate waffles closest by.  The app provides over 5,000 locations throughout the United States and includes major waffle chains like Denny’s, IHOP and Waffle House.

SportsAttendant will display the routes of sporting events like cycling, running, and triathlons and then will use LBS-functionality to coordinate a meeting point with the athlete you are cheering on.  SportsAttendant’s features also include calculating distance to the athlete, location tracking and calculation of transit time of the athlete.

Newsflash is customized news most current to the user’s location.  The application also can display national and global news.  The application is very user friendly because in addition to displaying geo-located news, it breaks that news down into categories such as business, sports, entertainment, health, etc. allowing the user to get news specified to their preferences.

Finally, at last, the ability to tag a tweet with GPS coordinates has arrived.  TweetGPS is used to keep your Twitter friends up to date on your location.  You can choose how accurate you want your position to be, how far you have to move and how long to wait before sending an update.

By Courtney Teeling