One of the great advances that GSP tracking has provided a mobile phone with, is the ability for geotagging. This is where you can provide information about a particular GPS co-ordinate, for example a restaurant, a pub or tourist attraction. It gives people the ability to personalise their own world, you can rate places, leave messages and put comments about the style of products, value for money or quality of service.

This means that if you are new to a neighbourhood you can benefit from local knowledge and find out where the best places to visit are and what to avoid. It places even more emphasis on companies to provide customers with a good service if they want to avoid negative ratings.

As more and more people become familiar with the concept of geotagging the better the quality of the information that is available. Many of the geotagging service providers are independent, so the opinions you read should be an unbiased view of what's on offer. GPS tracking allows your mobile to pinpoint your location and make suggestions for such things as accommodation, night spots out and great places to eat.

It is also useful for providing customers with accurate information if they are house hunting. By geotagging a property's GPS co-ordinates estate agents are able to leave details about price, locations and housing specifications. So interested people looking for a property can just enter their desired location and see what houses are for sale in that area.

Also a mobile phone with a GPS tracker is of great value when you are on holiday. Tourist Information centres and holiday attractions have not been slow in realising the value of GPS geotagging and you can find lots of tourist information available through mobile tourism apps. Putting in your GPS co-ordinates can give you a list of local attractions but also in many instances provide you with the history associated with the local castle or famous country manor you decide to visit.

GPS services have come a long way from the simple devices that everyone automatically thinks about when they think of mobile phone tracking. Such features as geotagging and geofencing allow you to leave information on your local area and find out exactly where there are great places to go when you visit somewhere else. It's less about James Bond secret espionage these days and more about entertainment for the night and a good meal.