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title: "Mobile GPS location sharing with Yahoo! Fire Eagle and Map My Tracks"
url: https://www.simonwakeman.com/blog/2008/08/12/mobile-gps-location-sharing-with-yahoo-fire-eagle-and-map-my-tracks/
description: "Consultant and fractional COO for scale-up businesses. I help founders, leaders and investors in scaling businesses create sustainably high performing organisations."
published: 2008-08-13T00:01:48+00:00
modified: 2026-04-11T16:25:09+00:00
author: Simon Wakeman
---
# Mobile GPS location sharing with Yahoo! Fire Eagle and Map My Tracks

## Mobile GPS location sharing with Yahoo! Fire Eagle and Map My Tracks

There’s a real buzz around location-based services right now – the rapid increase in the number of GPS-enabled mobile phones and high speed data for mobiles are combining to open up all sorts of new opportunities for using location data in new and creative ways.  
[Yahoo!](http://www.yahoo.com) has spotted this – its Fire Eagle location sharing service has been in private beta for a while now, and today it’s [launched properly](http://twitter.com/plasticbagUK/statuses/885528249) – check it out at [fireeagle.yahoo.net](http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/).  
Fire Eagle acts as a broker for location data – you can use a range of sources to update your location with Fire Eagle and then use the service to control which third-party services your location is then shared with.  
On the surface this might not seem like a lot of functionality, but the potential for its use is huge – in the same way as the simplicity of [Twitter](http://www.twitter.com) has created a platform for sharing information in ways that go far beyond the pure functionality of the service itself.  
At [Map My Tracks](http://www.mapmytracks.com) we’ve been working hard to integrate our mobile GPS live tracking application with Fire Eagle. Map My Tracks users can now share their mobile location information free with Yahoo! Fire Eagle – from once per hour right up to every minute. This provides users with an easy real-time feed of their location that they can then use in whichever way they wish.  
(disclosure: in case it’s not obvious, Map My Tracks is a client of mine)