My first iPhone app: Beacon

It's actually my third, but it is the first one I've finished ;-)

Beacon is an app that does one thing; puts your location on the web for others to view it. That's it. No muss, no fuss, no setup, and no buttons, even! You just start it, wait for the phone to get a location fix, and go do other stuff with your phone.

The neat thing about it isn't really the app that runs on the phone, but the "beacon" file that it creates for the web. It is in KML format, which means that sites like Virtual Earth (or even that other google maps thing) can read, for example, this link will show my very latest beacon on VE.

So you can click that link anytime to find out when the last time I updated my beacon was, and where I was when I did it. It isn't quite so good as constant tracking, but we're getting there.