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Lobo
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 Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:36 am Post subject: Web service for locating friends |
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Are there any service where I can make my GPS/PDA send my location to a server and it then will be displayed on a map for my friends to see? Any server software so that I can make my own service? (Linux)
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 12:43 pm Post subject: |
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Copilot enables you to do this.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 1:12 pm Post subject: Re: Web service for locating friends |
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| Lobo wrote: | Are there any service where I can make my GPS/PDA send my location to a server and it then will be displayed on a map for my friends to see? Any server software so that I can make my own service? (Linux)
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Yeah, CoPilot does but it's a piece of junk software and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
If you have a lat/long then you can easily display the location with a red circle using Multimap - just insert the lat/long into the URL as shown.
http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=51.5013&lon=-0.1425&scale=10000&icon=y
Hmmm, it shouldn't be too hard to write a program which could send your position to a webserver which would create the URL, though I don't know of anything that does it.
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kartracer
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:52 pm Post subject: Re: Web service for locating friends |
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| Skippy wrote: | | Yeah, CoPilot does but it's a piece of junk software and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. |
Each to his own. I have tried SmartST 1.91->2.00.0036 and TT2, but now prefer to use CoPilot 5.
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Lobo
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| Posted: Fri Mar 25, 2005 6:20 pm Post subject: |
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| I'll take a look at CoPilot. |
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Lobo
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No trial version? I wasn't planning on spending a lot of money on this  Nothing free that has this? |
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It costs money to provide this sort of service.
Depending on why you want to do this and what precision you need then mobile phone tracking might be the way to go. Very low start up costs and 25p per location.
http://www.followus.co.uk/index.html
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Lobo
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I guess I could clarify I would like to have my Qtek S100 (Phone Edition) to send my GPS coordinates via GPRS (cheapest possible) to a server that generates a map with my position on it. I'd also prefer to set up my own service on my own server (running Linux) and be able to have my friends register accounts and also be trackable, but if there is something out there that's good enough I guess I could use that service too. All for fun It would also be nice to see one's tracks on the map after traveling somewhere.
While I'm at it.. I'm also looking for some software for Windows that can make a 3D-image of a log, showing graphically how I traveled. This would be useful for us as we use the GPS to plot statistics and such while longboarding downhill.
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There's nothing out there for free, or close to free that will do this. As others have said, CoPilot will allow you to track, it only costs the price of the application, after which providing you have a GPRS connected phone then you just upload your position every 5 mins or 1 min to the server and people can track you via the web.
If you're looking to do this on your own server, then you're really on your own and are going to have to program your own system from scratch. |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 29, 2005 2:27 pm Post subject: Re: Web service for locating friends |
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| Skippy wrote: | | Hmmm, it shouldn't be too hard to write a program which could send your position to a webserver which would create the (multimap) URL, though I don't know of anything that does it. |
It would be very easy to write a server program that took in lat long as HTTP get or post parameters and then generated a link to multimap. I could do it in PHP or ASP.NET in a few minutes.
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| That'd be a good start PHP is preferred Anyone that can make an app for Windows Mobile? Options that would be needed are host address and interval of reporting. I am completely lost when it comes to programming so I have no idea how hard it would be to make this app.. |
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