Originally Posted by DoughtCom

I talked to Staryon earlier in the day and he said I could help out with the web portion of this project. I've started working on it tonight and have a few hours into it and almost have a working prototype.

I'm going to start out simple and get the interface/features nailed down. But these are the things to look forward to in the first release (which will be VERY soon)

1.) You'll be able to manage "trips" via their trip names, view different "trips", etc.
2.) There'll be an option to have a login before people can see your embedded "trips" or live trip, where you can specify a UN/PW.
3.) You can change your password.
4.) There'll be code you can use to embed an i-frame of the data on your website (still ironing out this idea).

Some other ideas I have.

1.) You can have it contact people based on your location (ie. e-mail, SMS (maybe?)) someone when you get to your destination.
2.) Stylize your current map overlay, by selecting colors and whatnot. I'm not sure about this I'll have to look into the google map API.

Awesome! Are you writing this in php or asp?

Open Street Map

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Great idea for a tool. Why not also make the data compatible with that used by the Open Street Map project: www.openstreetmap.org Then one day we will have some open source maps

Thanks for your suggestion, derek-farn. I'll keep that in mind for the future.

while(!(linux)){wm} and DoughtCom,

**THANKS SO MUCH** for adding those cool features to the program. I really really appreciate your cooperation.


The new version is ready. The reason I haven't uploaded it yet is because I'm trying to find a bug that happens when trying to upload a kml file that was generated locally. This bug only happens sometimes and it's hard to debug. As soon as I have this resolved, I will upload it.

Regards and thanks for your patience!

Can't wait to try the new version, have you given some though into adding a "waypoint" button to memorize a spot on the fly, on top of the automatic updates ?

Another cool option to had to this software would be to copy our current GPS position and also to copy our current GPS position in a google maps webpage format, so that we would be able to send our position to other ppl via SMS ou EMAIL:

We would be able to have a text like this and copy it to EMAIL our SMS:

Current GPS position: xxxxxxx, xxxxxxxx
Google Maps: http://maps.google.com/xxxxxxxxxxxxx...xxxxxxxxxxxxxx


PocketTracker from KAI software uses a function GPS2SMS to do something like that....
http://www.pocketkai.net/asp/index.h...tails.aspx?383

It would be great to had this option.

This is pretty flippin sweet!

I used it on my way into work this morning.

Worked like a champ.

Very nice job in programming this application.

As I am a web developer I'm looking forward to having the option to use my own MySQL database. I love data and would like to see how I could use it in other ways.

Well guess I should of read all the posts to see that the option to use your own database was an option. I managed to get it all set up, but I had some problems. This was due to the way my php is setup.

Had to add the following to requests.php

	$action = $_GET["action"];
	$username = $_GET["username"];
	$password = $_GET["password"];
	$lat = $_GET["lat"];
	$long = $_GET["long"];
	$dateadded = $_GET["dateadded"];
	$dateoccurred = $_GET["dateoccurred"];
	$datefrom = $_GET["datefrom"];
	$dateto = $_GET["dateto"];
	$tripname = $_GET["tripname"];

And adding the following to googleearth.php

	$action = $_GET["action"];
	$username = $_GET["username"];
	$password = $_GET["password"];
	$lat = $_GET["lat"];
	$long = $_GET["long"];
	$dateadded = $_GET["dateadded"];
	$dateoccurred = $_GET["dateoccurred"];
	$datefrom = $_GET["datefrom"];
	$dateto = $_GET["dateto"];
	$tripname = $_GET["tripname"];

Have to declare those variables yo!

I'm doing all of my changes/additions in ASP.Net 2.0 in C#. I'm connecting to a SQL 2005 server but could connect to a SQL 2000 server as well.

In regards to PHP I do not know PHP super well and wanted to get some functionality added asap so that people could use it so I coded it in my native language. Once I'm done with the C# version (which should be this weekend) and have a working prototype I'll look into redoing it in PHP, unless someone wants to collaborate with me on that.

If anyone wants to use my server it's free and I have a very beefy server to work with. If not and they have an ASP.Net server they can use, let me know.

Peace!
-Shawn

Originally Posted by gthing

Hey this sounds really cool. I have another idea ...

I've seen program where you could perform functions by sending sms messages to your phone.

It would be cool if you could activate trackme via a text message - that way if your phone was ever lost or stolen, you could go knock down the guy's door!

Like this one?http://www.wimp-software.co.uk/

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