Thread: GPS Tracking

To be honest, I think it might be easier to write a separate proggie that will dial *99# (activate GPRS) and then upload the file to your preset address.

were you thinking of using this to track your vehicle?

thinking about it, it would be possible to write an asp page to track the vehicle by getting your carpc to visit that page periodically, and the ASP page would log it to a database.

for example a web page like

"www. domain. com/ nickstracker.asp?currentlatitude=53.14532&currentl ongtitude=0.134"

the page would then save the current lat and lon, and any other info you want, to the database.

Would that help? If so, let me know, and I will build one for you.

me again... the database would also then be able to see where your vehicle was last, and show it on multimap or something like that.... ooh this idea is building up....

sounds perfect!!! rock on!!

lousey prime meridian straddlers!.... "currentlongtitude=0.134"

I will have a play tonight....









then I will work on this asp page

lol

I just built something very similar, only I used the PHP format instead of asp. My application was not for tracking vehicles, but instead computers. There is a VB application yhat runs on a client machine which navigates to "www. domain .com / track / update .php?user=John&localip=192.168.1.100&remoteip=64.5 6.123.98". Basically it allows the PHP to save these variables to a text file on the server that is titled based on the users name.

If you could get yor vehicle to connect and bring up this PHP page with your GPS data, iit would be extrenely easy to log and even display on a map.

My suggestion... Perhaps you should look into a web-enabled phone? You said you were going to put a seperate phone hidden in the vehicle, so it doesnt matter what method it uses. I would see if I could get the phones web browser itself to navigate to the certain address upon recieving the command somehow.

Brett W

This is a cool idea. If we could build a big database for everyone on here...