New real-time GPS tracking software, BikeTrack Mobile

[khaytsus]

Somewhat oriented towards cycling, but can be used for walking or driving, this software grabs coordinates from the built-in (or external) bluetooth device and uploads the data to a website in real time. I believe you can also view the current location real time, or the current route, or previous routes! It has a website that you register a user/pass with which also goes into the program for uploading. When you want to view your routes, you go to a slightly different place on the same server and it appears to use Google Maps to overlay the information.

It also has the option to store the data and upload it later.

I've just experimented with it a little, but so far it's quite cool. I see some other related software to this discussed around here, so figured some folks might be interested.

I have found one bug which I'm going to report.. If the data connection gets severed it seems to get confused and can't re-start tracking, then it crashed on me, but no biggie, just started it back up.

I think I'll also make a suggestion for log frequency.. Right now I think it's logging per GPS frequency (1 per second) but for slower moving transportation or for potential battery/data savings, I think it could easily be changed to higher values, such as 1 data point in 5, 10, 15s etc..

Check it out, http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-biketrack-v0-81.html

BTW, no affiliation with the author, just found the SW yesterday and think it's rather cool.

[KD8DNS]

Somewhat oriented towards cycling, but can be used for walking or driving, this software grabs coordinates from the built-in (or external) bluetooth device and uploads the data to a website in real time. I believe you can also view the current location real time, or the current route, or previous routes! It has a website that you register a user/pass with which also goes into the program for uploading. When you want to view your routes, you go to a slightly different place on the same server and it appears to use Google Maps to overlay the information.

It also has the option to store the data and upload it later.

I've just experimented with it a little, but so far it's quite cool. I see some other related software to this discussed around here, so figured some folks might be interested.

I have found one bug which I'm going to report.. If the data connection gets severed it seems to get confused and can't re-start tracking, then it crashed on me, but no biggie, just started it back up.

I think I'll also make a suggestion for log frequency.. Right now I think it's logging per GPS frequency (1 per second) but for slower moving transportation or for potential battery/data savings, I think it could easily be changed to higher values, such as 1 data point in 5, 10, 15s etc..

Check it out, http://www.freewarepocketpc.net/ppc-download-biketrack-v0-81.html

BTW, no affiliation with the author, just found the SW yesterday and think it's rather cool.

So does this and it works better http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=340667

[shogunmark]

this might work better for you
http://free.3dtracking.net/


or the even better solution..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=386477

[khaytsus]

I was going to check out the TrackMe solution but it required .net 3.5 and I didn't want to get into that, as I've heard that can break other software that's written for 2.0.

The other two programs I'll check out, thanks! :)

[snempaa]

Thanks for you email (i will reply to that lateron) and for this thread on the forum, I already had one here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=387262)! It really was a couple of days college assignment (well the idea was mine, but we had to do something with mobile devices) which I updated so it was usable for multiple users!

[khaytsus]

Thanks for you email (i will reply to that lateron) and for this thread on the forum, I already had one here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=387262)! It really was a couple of days college assignment (well the idea was mine, but we had to do something with mobile devices) which I updated so it was usable for multiple users!

Doh, I just searched the Kaiser subforum. :)

Couple days? Nice! :) I'd love to see what happens with a couple more days!