19 July 2008 No Comment

Bluemapia is a social network for boaters and sailors. Using Bluemapia, boaters and sailors have the “the ability to use their mobile phones to create and share detailed multimedia information about nautical itineraries and destinations …”. According to information from the Bluemapia website:

Mobile users can search bluemapia.com for placemarks created by others and with a GPS connected they can see their current position on the map, send their position to the web site to be tracked online and take a photo that will be geo-referenced to create a placemark. Users can then add a name, a text and send one or more placemarks to bluemapia.com to be shared with the community.

To use the Bluemapia services, you need to download the bluemapia mobile client, which is - for the current release - only available for Windows Mobile devices. iPhone and Symbian support is slated for future releases. Bluemapia mobile client is free and Open Source (GNU GPL v2), however, free registration is required to gain “full access to the bluemapia mobile features”.

Bluemapia has a TV channel on the Moqulus Internet TV network

And here’s a silent YouTube video showing how Bluemapia works: