Geotagging
Geotagging is a popular way to catalog and add context to digital content. Before Wi-Fi Positioning from Skyhook Wireless, many geotagging applications could only support devices with GPS hardware. These applications missed out on tagging content on tens of millions of mobile handsets with Wi-Fi but without GPS.
Using applications that have integrated XPS from Skyhook Wireless, consumers can easily and instantly geotag photos, digital content or physical locations with accurate location data. When XPS is embedded into a geotagging application, consumers are not delayed or constrained by the long time to fix and poor indoor results of traditional positioning methodologies.
Eye-Fi enhanced its Wi-Fi enabed digital camera memory cards with WPS. User's photos are automatically stamped with location and uploaded to photo-sharing websites. Locr geotags mobile phone photos using WPS. Photographers using Locr can instantly shoot and accurately tag their photos in any environment. Trapster's has deployed Skyhook to help drivers stay safe and ticket-free. Users are able to alert the application when they locate a speed trap, and in turn alert other motorists of the pinpointed location of the snare. This saves drivers time and money, and even aids law enforcement.