2008 Imagine cup Australian winner David Burela has published a post about his new Windows Phone 7 App called Beachy.
I did have the chance to speak to him on Friday at Microsoft Australia and he did express his interest in WP7 and he did say he has plans for a few WP7 apps. Over the next 2 days they had a BizSpark Windows Phone 7 Workshop where WP7 devs had a contest and David’s app was crowned Runner up. The winner was Dimaz Pramudya. ( we don’t have any info on the app yet, but the dev will be blogging about it soon ).
Here is what David has to saya about the WP7 app
Beachy is an application that advises Sydney residents if it is safe to swim at their local beaches. I geocoded 43 beaches around the greater Sydney area, I then bring in data from 6 separate XML feeds from the NSW government that report on dangers at the beaches. All of it is then shown on a Bing maps overlay. GPS in the phone allows the application to show the user where they currently are allowing them to see if the beaches around them are safe to go to.
Detailed information about each beach would also be available to the user such as wind speed/direction and wave height. This would allow recreational users such as surfers or people sailing to decide which beach would have the optimal conditions for them.
via davidburela.wordpress.com [ for Pics and more info ]
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