Comments on: Sharing Location Info

By: Juhani

Juhani — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:06:52 +0000

Hey Mike, there’s a Latitude gadget you can add to a Google Sites dashboard - google.com/sites - only works in the U.S. currently, and I don’t know how easy it is to integrate to others webpages than those created with Sites.

By: Bruce Carney

Bruce Carney — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:52:13 +0000

Have a look at Nokia’s http://mymobilesite.net/ it is a Nokia Beta Labs service that runs a web server on your phone and will report info like GPS position.

I have also done fun stuff with it like have a friend in Australia take a photo on my phone via the web. (this would also solve the “wedged under a moving truck problem” :-)

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Wed, 04 Mar 2009 18:46:50 +0000

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By: Lauri

Lauri — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:09:37 +0000

Hi, have you tried Yahoo’s Fire Eagle? http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/ . The difference with Yahoo’s Fire Eagle is the fact that Google Latitude is for sharing your location only among your Google contacts, while Fire Eagle allows to share your location with public at large. I’ve tryed this app: http://firepin.com/ works great :)

By: miker

miker — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 02:34:44 +0000

Awesome, thanks for the suggestions folks!!!

Ian, I downloaded Sports Tracker to my E71, and I’ll give it a try on the ride home.

tz, I’ll snag minigpsd tonight and try it out with my n810 tomorrow.

Fantastic.

By: Ian Kennedy

Ian Kennedy — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 01:00:00 +0000

Hi Mike,

Check out Sports Tracker which runs on Nokia phones. It’ll not only track your location and average speed, it will even track your altitude and what music you were listening to as well as any photos or movies taken from the phone.

Here’s what the output looks like:

https://sportstracker.nokia.com/nts/workoutdetail/index.do?id=642464

By: James Pearce

James Pearce — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:15:47 +0000

If you’re feeling very adventurous, get your bike over here. You’re welcome to drop by ;-)

By: Steven Hoober

Steven Hoober — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 23:07:10 +0000

I haven’t used it really as when I tourist I tend to do it far out of mobile range, or walking (and the GPS sucks the battery) but Nokia Vine purportedly does this:
http://www.nseries.com/nseries/vine/
Updates location to whoever you want, tags photos, some other stuff. I think it’s supposed to generate useful URIs so you can blog and tweet about the stuff as well, instead of it being locked into any one system. Though you’ll need an S60 device yourself. Which I find a good thing.

When I did last travel and give a daily update, I did it all manual. I made this infographic road map:
http://shoobe01.blogspot.com/2007/05/vacation-infographic.html
Which I updated every day or two (so you can’t see the in-progress version as we finished the trip_, and then blogged about stuff separately:
http://shoobe01.blogspot.com/2007/05/wyoming.html
A few friends did follow along, so successfully that we wondered why no one called. They knew what we were up to enough not to worry.

By: tz

tz — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:24:15 +0000

Basically http://www.zdez.org was the main distribution point, but it is in Maemo-Extras.

I need to redo the UI when I get a chance. There is/was the zmapper page in the maemo garage, which was Qt based, but I need to rewrite chunks of that too. Both are GPL.

At ITT, there is the 0.31 version thread I monitor, but the 0.30 beta also has some tips.

Just install and ask on ITT or PM me there and I’ll try to answer any questions.

(One of the differences is that I do open the gpsd 2947 port to every connection, not just localhost, so you can “pull” a lat/lon location externally - even with telnet by typing p if I remember correctly).

I found a GPS that does 10Hz (or use any 5Hz) so I get detail location for my rides in a KML directory, but it will use the n810 GPS at the same time (or as a backup - I leave the BT unit on my bike and it automatically reconnects when I’m back from a walk).

The code is very compact and efficient so I would think it would be adaptable to phones as long as you could use C language.

By: miker

miker — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:37:15 +0000

Hey tz, Thanks! I’ll have to check that out. I found some links in ITT, but no actual home page for the minigpsd project. Is there some info floating around? Or should I just install (I do have an N810) and poke around in the installed files?