Guest adamjkimber Posted December 12, 2006 Report Posted December 12, 2006 As the title says, I've got a GPS tracking application currently running on both my C500 and C600 without any problems. It basically connects up to a bluetooth GPS, retrieves your Lat/Long/Alt/Speed periodically and, if you've moved, updates a database on my server with the current position. You can see my 0.001 version on my website at http://www.picatnet.co.uk/wheresadam.asp This is very rough, I've got a much nicer AJAX version running now that doesn't rely on META refresh but the current page is just for proof of concept. It's pretty rough and ready at the minute but I will have an application ready for people to have their own "Where's Adam" functionality on their own website within a week. I'm looking for a list of people willing to Alpha test this for me and give feedback on features they want adding and bug testing for me. Just to make my intentions clear, this project is not intended to be open-source but will be permamently free for personal and non-commercial use forever (as long as it doesn't cost me too much to keep running with server costs!). Let me know if you want to take part either by replying here or email to [email protected] to let me know you'd like to test. I'm looking for about 10 people to test this to begin with who plan on using it for a couple of hours a day if possible. Ideally you'll know a bit about HTML and javascript as the front-end is going to be a little techie to start with. I'm currently running this with a TomTom Mk2 GPS but I'm pretty sure the make of GPS won't matter. Anyways, have a look at my site - I can PM / Email you the link to the AJAX version that's in testing if you want. I know I'm asking a lot and feel free to email me if you just want to give it a go and see if it works for you anyway! :) Adam
Guest mwright Posted December 12, 2006 Report Posted December 12, 2006 As the title says, I've got a GPS tracking application currently running on both my C500 and C600 without any problems. I'm looking for a list of people willing to Alpha test this for me and give feedback on features they want adding and bug testing for me. Adam I know this was in the smartphone forum - but are you looking for just smartphone users? CHeers
Guest adamjkimber Posted December 12, 2006 Report Posted December 12, 2006 I know this was in the smartphone forum - but are you looking for just smartphone users? CHeers Currently I am, sorry. It's going to be relatively simple to port across to PPC when it's done but for now until I get the codebase sorted then it'll have to be Smartphone only as that's what I have to do testing on. When I release it, I'll port it to PPC as well for you. :)
Guest adamjkimber Posted December 13, 2006 Report Posted December 13, 2006 Well, The good news is, the software is all ready! :) I've had a friend test it on his device and all seems to work well. The bad news is, no-one on here seems to want to test it :D Can't I tempt anyone to help?
Guest Pek Posted December 19, 2006 Report Posted December 19, 2006 Hi, Where do I download this software of yours. I have an i920 and would like to test the software on that. Let me know. Gregory [email protected] As the title says, I've got a GPS tracking application currently running on both my C500 and C600 without any problems. It basically connects up to a bluetooth GPS, retrieves your Lat/Long/Alt/Speed periodically and, if you've moved, updates a database on my server with the current position. You can see my 0.001 version on my website at http://www.picatnet.co.uk/wheresadam.asp This is very rough, I've got a much nicer AJAX version running now that doesn't rely on META refresh but the current page is just for proof of concept. It's pretty rough and ready at the minute but I will have an application ready for people to have their own "Where's Adam" functionality on their own website within a week. I'm looking for a list of people willing to Alpha test this for me and give feedback on features they want adding and bug testing for me. Just to make my intentions clear, this project is not intended to be open-source but will be permamently free for personal and non-commercial use forever (as long as it doesn't cost me too much to keep running with server costs!). Let me know if you want to take part either by replying here or email to [email protected] to let me know you'd like to test. I'm looking for about 10 people to test this to begin with who plan on using it for a couple of hours a day if possible. Ideally you'll know a bit about HTML and javascript as the front-end is going to be a little techie to start with. I'm currently running this with a TomTom Mk2 GPS but I'm pretty sure the make of GPS won't matter. Anyways, have a look at my site - I can PM / Email you the link to the AJAX version that's in testing if you want. I know I'm asking a lot and feel free to email me if you just want to give it a go and see if it works for you anyway! :) Adam
Guest adamjkimber Posted December 26, 2006 Report Posted December 26, 2006 (edited) Hi, I sent you an email but not sure if it got junked. My email address is [email protected] if you are still interested and can get in touch. Thanks, Adam Edited December 26, 2006 by adamjkimber
Guest volkl23 Posted December 29, 2006 Report Posted December 29, 2006 Well, The good news is, the software is all ready! :) I've had a friend test it on his device and all seems to work well. The bad news is, no-one on here seems to want to test it :D Can't I tempt anyone to help? I would be willing to help as well. How do I download the software?
Guest nickcornaglia Posted January 4, 2007 Report Posted January 4, 2007 For reference, Paul's CamerAware does the same thing....plus speed camera location/warnings....soon more. Not hijacking your thread...just for a reference app to compare to.
Guest adamjkimber Posted January 4, 2007 Report Posted January 4, 2007 For reference, Paul's CamerAware does the same thing....plus speed camera location/warnings....soon more. Not hijacking your thread...just for a reference app to compare to. I didn't know there was an app to do it already - would have saved me a bit of coding time! Oh well, it was good fun and by the look of things, Paul's CamerAware seems to require a licence fee and also only updates the position once a minute regardless. I've tried to implement some logic to change update frequency from not updating to about once a minute to reduce GPRS costs (although Paul may have also done this). Anyways, if anyone wants a free solution then just email me and you are more than welcome to my software - the new website should be up soon at www.wheresadam.co.uk
Guest nickcornaglia Posted January 4, 2007 Report Posted January 4, 2007 Just to be clear, I wasnt knocking your app. I was just posting Paul's out for reference. BTW...Paul's only requires a liscense if you use the CameraDB. Also, it uploads positions every minute....but records position every second. So it uploads 60 positions every minute. Paul would speak better on his app than I would.
Guest adamjkimber Posted January 4, 2007 Report Posted January 4, 2007 I'm glad you did - I just wish I'd seen it earlier! :-) Thanks for the clarification on the licence, I take it everything else works fine for free then? Does Paul actually send 60 positions a minute? Seems like a fair bit of data to send every minute?
Guest nickcornaglia Posted January 4, 2007 Report Posted January 4, 2007 from what I understand....one recording a second....one upload per minute. Check the CamerAware forum for more detail. Or send him a PM.
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