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Software to upload position from windows mobile to web server?
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| John Burton 2007-10-09, 3:33 pm |
| I wonder if anyone knows if this software exists -
I have a windows mobile 6 phone (htc tynt) and a bluetooth gps receiver
which works well with it.
What I'd like is some software for the phone which periodically uploads it's
location to the internet. I guess the ideal way would be by requesting a URL
from a web server with the coordinates as parameters to the URL so that my
web server software can process the information. I'd simply like to a make a
"Where am I now" webpage
Does anyone know of any such software (preferably but not necessarily free)
for windows mobile?
Thanks
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| pwelten@zonnet.nl 2007-10-15, 3:33 pm |
| John Burton schreef:
> I wonder if anyone knows if this software exists -
>
> I have a windows mobile 6 phone (htc tynt) and a bluetooth gps receiver
> which works well with it.
> What I'd like is some software for the phone which periodically uploads
> it's location to the internet. I guess the ideal way would be by
> requesting a URL from a web server with the coordinates as parameters to
> the URL so that my web server software can process the information. I'd
> simply like to a make a "Where am I now" webpage
>
> Does anyone know of any such software (preferably but not necessarily
> free) for windows mobile?
> Thanks
Such a program seems fairly simple to make. I've already made a 'moving
map' program (called mapwelt) for pocketpc's/smartphones, and this
would seem a fairly simple addition. The parts I am least sure of are
things like security,authenticat
ion and costs involved with the data
transfer.
Peter
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| John Burton 2007-10-16, 10:33 pm |
| > John Burton schreef:
> Such a program seems fairly simple to make. I've already made a 'moving
> map' program (called mapwelt) for pocketpc's/smartphones, and this would
> seem a fairly simple addition. The parts I am least sure of are
I looked at doing this but it seemed like java midlets can't access
bluetooth or the COM ports on my tytn at least unless I'm missing something.
And you seem to need an expensive full visual studio to write "real"
applications. I'll look into it some more
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| pwelten@zonnet.nl 2007-10-17, 4:33 am |
| John Burton schreef:
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> I looked at doing this but it seemed like java midlets can't access
> bluetooth or the COM ports on my tytn at least unless I'm missing
> something. And you seem to need an expensive full visual studio to write
> "real" applications. I'll look into it some more
For my program I have used etcl (http://www.evolane.com/). This is a
free tcl interpreter that works on pc/linux/mac/pocketpc en windows
smartphones. It can access COM ports on these platforms, and I can also
retrieve webpages (haven't tested this extensively though).
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| John Burton 2007-10-17, 4:33 am |
| <pwelten@zonnet.nl> wrote in message
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> John Burton schreef:
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> For my program I have used etcl (http://www.evolane.com/). This is a free
> tcl interpreter that works on pc/linux/mac/pocketpc en windows
> smartphones. It can access COM ports on these platforms, and I can also
> retrieve webpages (haven't tested this extensively though).
Oh thanks, sounds ideal for this kind of fairly trivial application. I'll
take a look
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| Darrel Toepfer 2007-10-19, 7:33 am |
| "John Burton" <john.burton@jbmail.com> wrote:
> I wonder if anyone knows if this software exists -
>
> I have a windows mobile 6 phone (htc tynt) and a bluetooth gps
> receiver which works well with it.
> What I'd like is some software for the phone which periodically
> uploads it's location to the internet. I guess the ideal way would be
> by requesting a URL from a web server with the coordinates as
> parameters to the URL so that my web server software can process the
> information. I'd simply like to a make a "Where am I now" webpage
>
> Does anyone know of any such software (preferably but not necessarily
> free) for windows mobile?
> Thanks
This uses hamband to WWW:
http://www.abri.com/sq2000/GPStrack.html
http://www.byonics.com/microtrak
PocketFMS's next release supports datalinking for aviation users, sorta
a poormans ADS-B:
http://pocketfms.com
http://www.flarm.com
http://www.ads-b.com/news.htm
http://www.ads-b.com/picts/pda%20cockpit%20web.jpg
Wouldn't seem impossible to marriage the capabilities, ie. give a
webpage view of traffic for a specific area. These guys do it now using
IFR filed flights: http://flightaware.com
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