seanpu1

I infer from your reply you understand the situation to be, No. To my mind it would be very short sighted of Groundspeak to not have plans to add such functionality if it already does not exist. I'd love to hear from GS themselves

Hi, Is there support for online database access via http requests or udp? If not, is there any thoughts about including this as a feature of the language? If this was included i had foreseen an incredible dimension added to this. Live multipler, continuous online playing, weight taken away from the client onto the server, interplayer communications, real intelligent NPC movement between zones, inter cartridge interactions etc tec tec tec i had a similair idea about 4 years ago, except i imagine one wondering around the streets with a HUD, images created on the fly, superimposed on the "real-world", reality augmented by location-aware hardware with central server providing interconnect between users. One could see a virtual player through the HUD and interact with them as they wonder the virtual earth from the desktop, whilst u wonder the real world with ur avatar in the virtual earth. its not too far off, but Wherigo needs at least an internet connection to make things more dynamic.

Always looking for testers See this thread http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php...=186600&hl= it refers to a windows mobile application which monitors gps signal. it simple, but its the basis for a number of apps i have in mind. One is a carbon footprint calculator, giving you living stats on your carbon emissions depending on your mode of transport.

By handheld gps what do you mean? The programs I'm developing at the moment at targeted towards windows mobile machines (pdas, phones etc). if thats fits your requirement then cool, it would be great to has someone test the programs. (I found an idea the other day, to calculate your carbon footprint based on your movements. a personal carbon footprint calculator, using ur gps unit. I'm sketching out the framework at the moment. If off the path as far as what i want to do but its an interesting deviation.) Back to the topic, I'm planning on having the gps co-ordinates upload to a server by end of next week (as long as family commitments permit).

GPS Spot is a simple tool to keep the GPS alive and indicate whether you have a GPS signal or not, without having to fire up larger apps, like TomTom. Its build to work on my Xda Orbit. Would like to know if it works on anyone else orbit or any other device. Install: just unzip and run from a directory. Instructions: The app will minimise to the tray when you press ok or top-right X. Tray icon changes colour dependingo n the gps status Red mean no satellite data Yellow means between 1 and 3 satellites (2D fix) Green means 4 or more satellites (3D fix) Exit the program using the exit menu or kill the process. You can also download it from my webserver: http://gps.kicks-a**.net/gps_buddy/GPSSpot.asp you'll have to change the ** to "ss". Have fun. Sean

Hi again, Site has moved to http://gps.kicks-a**.net/gps_buddy/. Have bought myself a XDA Orbit Windows Mobile PC with built in GPS receiver! Happy Days! Just developing an GPS Tracking application to upload current GPS positions to my tracking website and a few more. Will keep you posted. Sean

Thanks for the info! thats great! Reading about it all now!

Apologies for those who tried my GPSClient last week, it didn't work due to a programming error. The client has been updated and should now work fine. Any problems please email me at seanpu1@yahoo.co.uk. Thanks Sean http://aspspider.info/seanpu1

http://aspspider.info/seanpu1/ GPSClient is ready for download and testing. Use the above link the download it. Many thanks in advance Sean

http://aspspider.info/seanpu1/ Ok website has the essential ready for testing. The GPSClient isn't ready, but I'll try and do that over the xmas period. Could you check links, database entry and retrieval and google maps interface. The forum aspect is an imported free product, not my creation. I've developed it using firefox and tested it on IE but nothing is as good as getting users to bust it An idea of features missing or needed would be nice. There is some instruction on how to interface the system with third-party software, if someone can be interested enough to do this http://aspspider.info/seanpu1/ Many thanks in advance Sean

Having worked for the police i happen to know every "bobby on the beat" and vehicle is tracked by gps (at least in the uk). Its very very impressive!!! And it piggypacks off their current radio system, so transmission is practically for free, just equipment and licences. I'm going to try and look at a taxi firms gps tracking system next year. I've heard impressive things there too. I'll keep you posted. At the moment I'm writing up webpages on how to access the system and recoding the google page. When that done I'll give out the url to the site.

Everything work wonderfully this morning I now have a trail of 30-second interval way points for my journey to work. The only thing i need to do to join all the dots is to get an Internet connection in my car. The google maps page needs updating as well cos its a bit buggy. When thats done i can release the url, cos it will work then By the sound of it Tom you don't really want me to answer those questions, the answers would be too ... extensive. In short, in as much as APRS is a tracking system, so is mine, we both use different technologies to perform the same task. The system works, but, unless they want to use my GPSClient and their laptop, it will be up to the users to get it to work for them. I can give advice and maybe even help out where possible.

Ham radio is used as the pipe between the data provider (eg gps in a car) and data distributor (the guy with the website). APRS is a good implementation but it lack loads in the interface it gives us. any new web-based map technology would be vastly superior in usability. nevertheless, Tom, it might be what ur looking for

Hi again, thanks for the welcome Tom: Its all about connecting technologies, and in this day and ages its very simple. The stopping block is often manufactures disallowing access to hardware from software. For example, my SHARP GX15 has everything it needs to connect to a GPS box via Bluetooth/serial port/infra-red port, grab and process signals, send position via GPRS over internet, even display Google map content. HOWEVER, manufactures only give a developers access to such hardware if they pay a premium, they don’t even give away the API once the device is out of date, so wasting so much resources. Old mobiles, in my opinion, are a gold mine for remote-micro processing devices. Anyway that my rant :-} On the topic of OnStart, every vehicle tracking service I’ve seen so far workings by the user (you) requesting a position. For technical reasons, that makes a lot of financial sense for the company that runs the service, but its very protectionist and I’m sure the market will fragment soon enough (data collectors, data distributors, data presentation tools). Would be nice to be part of that :-} Renegade Knight: high-end mobile phones/PDAs have the ability to display google(any?) map pictures, but the method used by google prohibits their display on limited devices, like my sharp gx15 and most phones. However, there are ways around this a) send pre-processed google maps to mobile as a picture, use another mapping website like streetmap grabbing the central picture frame. I’ll keep that in mind cos I use my phone for wap all the time JSWilson64: zones! Great idea. Want to set that up on my website, hmmmm.. Ok, to fill you in. Server side: I’m using SQL Server 2005 to house the data. ASP pages are used to populate the database and retrieve data. Google maps is used to display position information, and a simple text page returns position information as xml. That basically means anything with a web browser can access the database! (even my mobile phone as I found out today! Me REALLY happy about that!) Client-side: I’m using some indescript GPS receiver connected to my laptop. A small program I’ve written (actually com port reader I stole and amended for GPS capture ;-) captures the NMEA sentence (GPRMC) at intervals, formats the data and publishes it to the database via the aforementioned ASP pages. Internet connection provided by my bog-standard mobile’s Bluetooth connection. That’s it, in a nut shell. I’m writing up some descriptive webpages which explains everything in more details. The “flaw” in the system is Client-side software. At the moment I can offer only my GPSClient program which will run on a laptop or PC. Knocking up clients for half a dozen popular in-car systems would draw tons of people, but I don’t have the resources to achieve that yet, so it’s the PC in the car first. If your skills are up to writing a GPS client for some other hardware then get coding! For as long as I can I’ll keep the system open for use and for free.

Dear All, I’m pretty new to gps but, as a developer, I’m keen to explore new things and tinker about :-) (BTW hello room, my first message 8-) I’m using my gps receiver to track my car’s position, send that position over the internet to my website with a database, from which my wife can see where I am, in real-time. I think that’s cool, but then I’m a bit of a geek. It’s not a perfect system, it’s not finished, actually it in pieces but its working :-) I wanted to know if anyone else would be interested in trying it out. Its free and has not guarantee of working all of the time as its in development, and privacy is out the window, but if you got the equipment and the interest, you can post data to the database on the move, and pull it off later, others can also see where you are “now” just by typing in your username. Why am I asking others to use this system even though its way not finished? Because I need feedback! As I said I’m no gps guru. I don’t know what others would expect from such a system. All I am interested in is allowing my wife to see where I am, and eventually where my kids are (mobile phone tracking hehe). I want to polish it up but I know there are a thousand other uses for the system and I know it would be useful, especially if its free. If you would like to get involved or if you got any questions please post a reply here and I’ll get back to you. Thanks! Sean