GPS project

Hello,
following the recent keynote, I'm delighted to see the GPS as part of the specs. Especially since I worked the past week on a new project http://www.sharepoz.com/en/
It's a website that stores GPS positions of users and provides an API to send or retrieve these positions. The aim of the website is to store the positions and also to control which application can access the user's data.
I see many useful applications with such kind of data:
- track friend's position in real-time on a map
- receive an alert when a friend gets close to you
- distance, speed
Why an API ?
Many websites/applications can find good use for the user's GPS position. But not all of them can develop an iPhone app nor can the user run all of them at the same time. On the contrary, the API can receive the position from the phone and then forward it to the many other applications the user gave the right to obtain its position.
I did develop the API and the website for the user to grant access to the applications but unfortunately I do not have the skills to build the iPhone app.
Is anyone interested in creating this app ?
I wrote a basic documentation for API methods on http://www.sharepoz.com/en/developer
Example:
Query : HTTP GET http://www.sharepoz.com/api.php?d=select&k=11-1-cbc606a7d3b35c281cc2f547baa6d3e0 The "k" argument is specific to user + application.
Result (PHP output, I'm working on JSON, XML and TEXT outputs) :
<pre>Array
\[result\] => Array
\[time\] => 1212590932
\[latitude\] => 2.26817
\[longitude\] => 48.8526
)</pre>
Thank you

I have working code available, ready to be publish but I think it should be free and I do not know how I can make money with this.
I am trying to find somebody to help me pay my bill. Perhaps you or your company can sponsor this project?
By the way, are you French? (French language in your site)
I am French born, living in the US since 1988.
Philippe Furlan
California, USA
Check this site: http://locationweb.org where I explain my goal.

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