Thread: send position data to any server in real time

hey
sounds good, i'm in.
i've done a little bit of programming myself, heading into mobile devices and such atm.

I played around w/ the same thing and had it run on web services/XML so you can easily make it run on any platform, web server, language, etc.

Actually it gets data from MapMonkey's API. Written in Visual Basic 6.0.

Here some Features i plan or i have written now:

- transmission of coordinates, heading, speed, direction, timestamp
- tourid, maut-information, info about load (for german commercial use)
- car-identifier
- timestamp

What i need:
Someone who creates skins for embeddes using in MapMonkey/RoadRunner

Thanks
mlsoft

of course there are more things that this software does:

- Every xx seconds it writes actual data to local database to transfer oder view later
- internet- or ras- connection i handle dircetly wihout microsaft connection-manager (is not reliable enough)
- by holding connection it is possible to send real GPS-data directly to any server to store or visualize e.g. for racing purpose / realtime tracking

mlsoft

i used the api in mapmonkey because its very easy to use, however i switched iGuidance recently. Look into reading the memory address of programs to get the GPS coordinates (I can't tell you how to do this, as i did not get that far). You'll be able to use any GPS software w/ your program.

Originally Posted by warnockm

i used the api in mapmonkey because its very easy to use, however i switched iGuidance recently. Look into reading the memory address of programs to get the GPS coordinates (I can't tell you how to do this, as i did not get that far). You'll be able to use any GPS software w/ your program.

There is no reason to pull the GPS info from either Map Monkey, or iGuidance. RR has this information built into it. Just use the RR labels:

"GPSLAT" - GPS Latitude
"GPSLON" - GPS Longitude
"GPSSPD" - GPS Speed (In whatever units specified in RRConfig -- Mi/h or Km/h)
"GPSHDG" - GPS Heading (in degrees only)
"GPSALT" - GPS Altitude (In whatever units specified in RRConfig -- ft or m)
"DATE" - System Date
"TIME" - System Time

This would make the plugin universal to any GPS software that users may be using with RR, Streets & Trips, Map Point, Destinator, Free Drive, NRoute, iGuidance 2.x, 3.x, 4.x..... you get the idea

Yup, just pull the coordinates from RR as John said. Memory addresses in iGuidance jump around a lot so it's not reliable (I've tried this method when I was trying to parse the street names in IG).

I agree, just pull the coordinates from RR because its standard and not platform dependant.

Originally Posted by masch

I agree, just pull the coordinates from RR because its standard and not platform dependant.

i didn't realize this was an RR plugin. If you are running RR, then thats a great way to go. if not, use xport to copy another comport and read the raw GPS data.