I recently joined an open source effort to build a location-based social application that aim to provide location features to Google’s android compatible phones. It is called androidlocation. Initially, the application will allow to:

• List of friends with distance to our current location
• Detect GSM info and translate it to coordinates to know our current location
• Google Maps interfase to see objects in a specified radio of our current location with zoom and sattelite and traffic views
• Google Maps interfase to move around the map with zoom and sattelite and traffic views
• Search for Objects in Google Maps and show their location
• Show our current location with a transparent blue circle
• Show closest friends with their names