Location Finder for WP8 is a simple, yet powerful app to find, save and share your location with your family and friends. The app is fully optimized for WP8. The app also provides Geocoding and Reverse Geocoding functionality. The Bing Place card integration makes the app even better. Save all your favorite locations for future use. A lot of new features were added to the current version of the app. Check out and see it for yourself.
Key features
• Fully optimized for WP8. Supports Fast App Resume, Speech, All 3 tile sizes and screen resolutions.
• Provides Geocoding and Reverse Geocoding support.
• Attractive and user friendly UI that adheres to the WP Metro design guidelines.
• Live Tile support. The main tile is updated every 30 mins with the current location info if set to wide.
• Secondary Tile support for Current, Geocode and Reverse Geocode Locations apps.
• Ability to save locations for future use.
• Filtered view of saved location by category.
• Ability to pin saved locations as Navigation or Location Tiles for qucik access.
• Quick Cards/App connect support. Allows the app to be launched from bing's place details page.
New in v2.0
1) Supports Enhanced Voice commands, Speech recognition
and Text-to-speech. Can enable/disable through settings page.
2) Supports Fast App Resume
3) Main App Tile supports all three WP8 live tile sizes and secondary tile supports medium and small tile sizes.
4) Live Tile support for the main tile that can be enabled through the app settings.
5) Ability to pin secondary tiles.
6) Ability to pin saved locations as Navigation or Location Tiles for qucik access.
7) Ability to get driving/walking directions to any saved locations using navigation apps installed on the phone.
8) Integration with Bing Place Cards.
9) Filtered view of saved locations by category.
10) Ability to search saved locations.
11) Re-worked all the Tiles.
12) Birds eye view support and ability to change the orientation of the map.