Uploading GPS Info

[darthgus]

Hi There

Ive tried searching high and low for this type of feature and I cannot find anything. Let me explain.. :)

What I want to do is on my Pocket PC with a GPS unit, is basically have a program running that grabs the Long/Lat data from the GPS at a specified time interval (say every 60 mins) and uploads that to a website or FTP via GPRS.
What I plan to do on the website side of things is to have the website read from that data and load Google Maps to show where the person is!

Anyone already know a program to do this kind of thing?

Thanks in advance

Gary

[pjcltd]

Hi
I have made a program that will get the gps pos of a device and send it back to a pc via SMS it can send it to a server over gprs.

[cruisin-thru]

pjcltd is there any chance of a copy of the program.

Darthgus, hers a laptop solution, I am sure there is a pocket pc solution somewhere.

http://conversationswithmyself.com/maps/tracker/gmapTracker.html

[classicxda]

Try www.pocketpccreations.com

I have used it to get the location of an operator when tacking data. I have not tried to run a timer it get the data when a user clicks the button. You have to add the gps custom point.

Let me know if you need any further info.

[darthgus]

Hi
I have made a program that will get the gps pos of a device and send it back to a pc via SMS it can send it to a server over gprs.

Hey there

Any chance I could get a copy of this? Greatly Apprciated..

[darthgus]

pjcltd is there any chance of a copy of the program.

Darthgus, hers a laptop solution, I am sure there is a pocket pc solution somewhere.

http://conversationswithmyself.com/maps/tracker/gmapTracker.html

Heh, thats exactly the sort of thing but with Pocket PC. I wanted to get the POS to a website, then use the API of Google maps to show the position.

[darthgus]

Try www.pocketpccreations.com

I have used it to get the location of an operator when tacking data. I have not tried to run a timer it get the data when a user clicks the button. You have to add the gps custom point.

Let me know if you need any further info.

Yea, Im not really wanting to run a program like that to do it, basically I just want something sitting in the background dropping the GPS point every x mins or x hrs type thing to a website/ftp.

[Puff The Magic Wagon!]

We use this for our workers on the road. They send back positions every 10 seconds via their XDA & we track them on maps in the office.

However, it's part of a larger 2-way data app.

[Puff The Magic Wagon!]

Yea, Im not really wanting to run a program like that to do it, basically I just want something sitting in the background dropping the GPS point every x mins or x hrs type thing to a website/ftp.

But I do know of someone who has something simillar, I'll get in touch...

[pjcltd]

ok i will post a program on here that will run for 15 days

before i do you must know that the program will work with any gps
ie com1 - com9
and it will send the pos to any sms number that you want

ok

If you want any more info then let me know


it should be on by 2pm uk time

[cgrillo]

What's chance of posting some source code?
or it a commercial product?

[pjcltd]

What's chance of posting some source code?
or it a commercial product?

Well i can point you in the right direction for code but i have spent a lot of hours on this project as we use it with our loneworkers
is its more of what you can do realy

but i will post it today

[darthgus]

Yea, Im not really wanting to run a program like that to do it, basically I just want something sitting in the background dropping the GPS point every x mins or x hrs type thing to a website/ftp.

But I do know of someone who has something simillar, I'll get in touch...

Thanks, Look forward to hearing from ya...

[darthgus]

What's chance of posting some source code?
or it a commercial product?

Well i can point you in the right direction for code but i have spent a lot of hours on this project as we use it with our loneworkers
is its more of what you can do realy

but i will post it today

Cool will be good to have a look at, but not much use without some code or whatever as I dont want to send sms's but upload the data to a http/ftp site.

[cruisin-thru]

I look forward to testing this program. How do we get the unlimited version if we find it useful?

[pjcltd]

I look forward to testing this program. How do we get the unlimited version if we find it useful?

Very sory for the delay in posting the program i had to get the ok my Boss
i will be posting a 15 day trial
if you want a full version then we can sort that out later.

At the moment the program dose the foolowing

1 When you run the program it starts the GPS
You mush have a gps connected and working for this to work
See VidyaScreen005.JPG

2 If all is ok you will get the following screen
See VidyaScreen003.JPG

3 From this Screen you can Change the user status
See VidyaScreen006.JPG

4 You can change any of these messages.
See VidyaScreen013.JPG

[cgrillo]

So it there any chance of the source code????? :D

[pjcltd]

Yes i think so if a donation is made to me to help me with the costs of the project.

[nkristensen]

Hi There

Ive tried searching high and low for this type of feature and I cannot find anything. Let me explain.. :)

What I want to do is on my Pocket PC with a GPS unit, is basically have a program running that grabs the Long/Lat data from the GPS at a specified time interval (say every 60 mins) and uploads that to a website or FTP via GPRS.
What I plan to do on the website side of things is to have the website read from that data and load Google Maps to show where the person is!

Anyone already know a program to do this kind of thing?

Thanks in advance

Gary


Have a look at http://www.tvwebradio.com/findme2/forum

[cruisin-thru]

Has the program been posted :?:

[khanh_xda]

We use this for our workers on the road. They send back positions every 10 seconds via their XDA & we track them on maps in the office.

However, it's part of a larger 2-way data app.
GPS.PI
This program exchanges geographical position points by SMS or Emai (GPRS, Bt, Wifi) services of cellular phone network.
It allows you to follow your friends, children, cars, dogs... whatever you want.

http://www.jgui.net/gps/gpspi/Image33.jpg http://www.jgui.net/gps/gpspi/Image26.jpg

Have a look here: http://www.jgui.net/gps/gpspi/

[darthgus]

Have a look at http://www.tvwebradio.com/findme2/forum

I think this is EXACTLY what im looking for..! Im going to test and check out and will report back..





Thanks everyone else for the input ill have a look at the other pages too..

[darthgus]

Just thought I'd follow up - Im currently awaiting an account to try with that service above -

But hunting through i've found that he actually offers the server portion and ppc cab file on his other website to use for free!
http://www.geocities.com/oxcarz12/

Hopw that helps other people out also. Im still looking over it all but will report more once i know more.. :)

[cruisin-thru]

pcjltd, are you posting the prgram on here or in ftp site, I cant see it yet and am looking forward to trying it out.

[cgrillo]

Well I've had no code from people who said they'd send some for me to look at, so I have written one myself - a learning curve as I'm not too proficient in VB.net.

Anyway,
Within a couple of days I'll have a program to run on WM2003SE that will automatically check all com ports for a GPS device and read it.
It displays Date Time/Lat/Long.

It will send this info to an ASP page that will log the user id, Time Date and Lat / Long (at a user specified interval). It doesn't send too much data to the site (approx 50 bytes) as traffic volume is what most of us are charged on.
The positions will be stoired in a database on the web site.
there will also be an ASP page for the user to log in to (user id that is used in the program and a password) so that they can see their logs.

The resulting pages will have shortcuts to whatever in-line mapping sites that I can find and use (Suggestions here would be useful :D )

I'll be using it anyway - so the rest of you may as well take advantage of that... or shoudl I say - my Wife will be using it !!

IF anyone would like to test it please let e know (Pls PM me as well as replying)

It is a few days off at the moment, but should be ready by this weekend - time and life permitting :D

Once I have screenshots, I will post links to them - or put them here!
That's IF anyone is interested :wink: Let me know if you are.

Also,pls let me know what devices you have and what OS... as I'll try to test it on all the OS's available to me (real and emulation).

[cruisin-thru]

Count me in and good luck with the venture. I am still interested in pjcltd and his program also, dont know what happened to the program that was to be posted. :?:


p.s. Will it work on standard WM2003.

[cgrillo]

Will it work on WM2003 ???
I certainly hope so, I will be testing it via Visual Studio :? on the emulator for this OS

[Yorch]

what about that cellID tracking program that tracks your positions via cell towers, there is something like that for the C500, and I think there was something like it for the XDA, although is still buggy as hell.

I have seen in the Phonealarm program an option where it shows you the cellID and you can change profiles depending on location, and thei MY|BLOG program, that does exactly that, so it IS possible.

[cruisin-thru]

Cellid is useful but it isnt very precise for tracking unfortunately.

[Yorch]

Oh, I see, but It will be cool still, if this program would use those two technologies, to try to track yourself. i.e. when you don't have your GPS running, it uses this CellID to track you.

[pjcltd]

Hi All
very sorry for not post the program / code i am working for a hotel in london at the moment i will be back in the office on monday i will then post a 15 day trial of our program.

If any one want any part of the code GPS etc then please let me know...


Thanks


Paul

[cruisin-thru]

Still no upload of this program. I am looking forward to trying it out.

[cgrillo]

Unfortunately life, work and scuba diving :D :D has got in the way of me doing my stuff, so it's a case of waiting for PJCLTD to show us his stuff !!! :D
I'm also going on hols end of the week and I don't think the "trouble & strife" will appreciate me taking my laptop. :( , so it will be a couple of weeks before I get anything at all done

[cruisin-thru]

pjcltd, I am waiting patiently for you to post the program. I am impressed with the screenshots and it may be you are missing a source of revenue by not posting the trial version.

[cgrillo]

I've managed to get a little program together and it now uploads the position and your "userid" to a server via GPRS (or whatever internet connection the PPC has) , and the server stores it.

I now need help to find any web pages that will display maps given parameters of the locationm that way I can code my "retrieval" page to automatically display the page.. if more than 1 location can be displayed then it would be ideal as it could show progress....

I have tried multimap (UK), but that's not too hot as it doesn't show the exact location, just shows the area around the selected co-ordinates.

[Puff The Magic Wagon!]

Google Maps

http://www.spv-developers.com/forum/showthread.php?t=316

[cgrillo]

Cool :D - at least someone cares!

Google Maps it will be - if I can get it working as I'd like then it's gonna look great! - if not - bummer!

I'm hopefully going to be logging my 60 mle journey from work - home (every minute) tonight and will then get the web pages sorted so that it will display my route and progress.

I've also just got a beta copy of Visual Studio 2005 and may re-write my app as the GPS/Comm DLL's I found on the net don't seem too stable in my implementation).

I will post updates as they come...


EDITED:-
I now have google maps working on a sample set of data, check out this link to show the last 10 minutes of my journey home (after having removed the last few entries!)
www.grillo.biz/position/Show.asp
I think it will oly show 10 pushpins.
Please let me know what you think.

Future pages will have an option to show positions for a given date/time and up to 10 previous locations to that, along with an input for the users details.

As for how much data it pushed over GPRS, on 26 updates, it used about 52K (that's what the GPRS monitor tells me anyway)

BUT Visual Studio 2005 has knackered my PC so a complete rebuild may be necessary - and it won't be quick !

[cgrillo]

Ok, I now have a stable application and web site to get this up and running.

I decided to re-write it on a different language completely.
The web pages are still in ASP against an Access database.

For info, it updates the web in realtime, so your position can be seen immediately (at user chosen refresh intervals).

I work in London and if thers's an "incident" and I don't know about it, then my wife can see if I'm "safe".... plus I do a lot of driving and she can easily see if I'm stuck in traffic - so will be late home for tea!

The app will be available via a link on http://www.grillo.biz/position/ later this week.
There will be one CAB for the run time and one for the application.

I have to manually set users up in the database before positions will be stored. This way I can ensure people use unique names.

That link is also the one to see where you've been.

Please look at the page above as it does include some samples.

If you like it and have ideas for change, I am open to suggestions.

If you have any questions, PM me, post on here or email me gps@grillo.co.uk

[indiekiduk]

You might like to try the buddy tracker feature of Navizon

http://www.navizon.com

http://www.navizon.com/images/tracker_snap1.jpg
http://www.navizon.com/images/tracker_snap2.jpg

[cgrillo]

Well - the files are available for anyone to download.

www.grillo.biz/position

Any questions:- please ask me ... gps@grillo.co.uk - or PM or post here..

[shuffle]

Man, must be nice to have affordable GPRS - I'd be all over this like a fat kid on a cheeseburger if I could afford the data ...

[cgrillo]

The data upload per "send" is very little indeed.
The length of the url it posts to (with all the position data) is about 50 bytes and very little is sent back from the asp page
(after all I dont want to waste my own monthly allocation of 1/2 Mb !- and it was initially concieved as something for myself to use regularly)

I now use it on the train on the way home, and my wife checks the progress to see if there are any delays... as there regularly are!

I'll monitor my usage over a number of uploads and report back the usage.

www.grillo.biz/position

[Puff The Magic Wagon!]

You use that program PLUS send back the CellID & LAC of the attached unit & you'll start to build up a cell site map...

[pjcltd]

Ok
very sorry for the being able to post my program on here
I have had a hell of a lot of work here.

This is a 30 day test of my program
you can look at all the screens and play with it as much as you like
but it will not upload to any website as i dont have that side of the system working yet.

The position is sent by SMS at the moment back to my PC at Work (this will not work unless you ask me for the password to unlock the system)

Have a look at it and let me know what you think.

http://www.pjpj.co.uk/gps/Lonetracker_PPC_PPC2002.STRONGARM.cab

http://www.pjpj.co.uk/gps/Lonetracker_PPC_PPC2003.STRONGARM.cab


thanks

Paul

[cgrillo]

For Info, there's a new version of the GPS Monitor program available at www.grillo.biz/position

Thanks for looking.

Charlie

[Impossible]

very very classy, love the intergration you have going with google maps.


Imp

[ianlarner]

OK, i could really do with some pointing in the right direction.

I'm building a similar app, and i'm pretty new to application programming. I've got the PDA side of the application going, it displays your positiong and total distance travelled etc.

I now want to upload the Longitude and Latitude to a webserver/MySQL database which i'll then link in with google maps.

Unfortunately i'm not sure where to start on the programming for making the connection with my webserver, do i need to use the connectionManager Api? Or is there another way?

Any help would be very much appretiated!

Thanks in advance!

[ccsnet]

Have a look at the services here.... http://www.mp3car.com/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=5 - Needs a PPC client though..

Terran

[paulrockliffe]

cgrillo, that's an awesome application, thanks. Would it be difficult for a novice like myself to integrate it into my own website so that I don't have to rely on yours? I've got a MySQL database, I presuem that's all I'd need?

[cgrillo]

Sorry, but at this stage I'm not sharing my source code nor will I point the application to another web site.

If you would like changes to the application or web pages, I can build it in.
Please feel free to ask.

Charlie Grillo

[oxcarz]

http://www.geocities.com/prestonsystems/mytracking

There is a free client/server package for personal use using Google Earth and Google maps. The dev still offers trial accounts on the test server too, if you want to try it.

Ox

[smsttw]

Tnx, Ox.
Nice tracking solution for the PDA. Looks like the free version is a way to drum up business for the commercial version. The only difference I can see is that the commercial version uses MapPoint 2004. Are you the developer? Does it run on winXP pro IIS , or do you need Windows server 2003?

[oxcarz]

Yes, I am the dev. WIth the commercial version you get route maps, address lookups, and all the data is archived in .csv format for use in Excel. It's also very fast because the maps come from your own server.

FOr personal use, I would stick to the free version. Google Earth is really amazing and probably all you need.

Ox

[cgrillo]

In case anyone cares, there is a new version of my GPS Monitor app available.

www.grillo.biz/position/software.asp

enjoy....

[njcoussell]

Hey Cgrillo,

From what i'v seen so far it looks like a great application. I'm not up and running yet but should be in a couple of weeks.

I look forward to having a play with your great little application.

Keep up the good work.