Thread: GooPs Real-time GPS Tracking and Navigation for Google Earth -Version 2.5.13 Released

Hey sleen,

Thanks again for your great feedback. Sorry it took so long to complete my reply.

Originally Posted by sleen

1. The most important thing so far is appending to a previous trip, or how these record/stop pause/continue controls are supposed to work. I have not been able to keep a complete trip over multiple days with the server shutdown in the evening (turned off with me in the hotel).

I'll see about increasing the max number of points. I can also add more options for compression/optimization.

Originally Posted by sleen

2. The name of the stored or preferred kml file does not persist through sessions. I have had to use the default Me.kml in the options, and then mirror this name in the ftp prefs to make it 'persist' without alot of typical pc pecking every time I use this.

Do you mean for the "Save File Periodically" feature? I discovered a problem retrieving names that are more than 32 characters long from the registry. This will be fixed in the next release.

Originally Posted by sleen

3. Save to local or ftp? How about both? Yes I want to serve this out, but the whole ftp thing is really volatile and my clients get a 404 half the time. When I check out my route in the evening out of the vehicle I am way bummed to see it has only grabbed my most recent segment with no detail from the previous days.

I believe this problem is because of the sporadic network connection in the mobile environment. Currently GooPs doesn't retry a failed transfer until the next "period". It will probably help to have GooPs continue trying until successful.

Originally Posted by sleen

4. How to properly shut this system down without losing data. Do I close Google earth first? Do I close Goops first? Either way, I get orphaned processes that requires me to reboot in traffic holding down the power button for 5 seconds to cold boot. End now, end now, end now...it might behave much better if I ditch google earth and just run Goops for logging...but then I have no feedback that the: NMEA gps feed is cool, that the FTP updates are working.

Always shut down GooPs first - otherwise COM will try to re-start GE ad-nauseum when GooPs tries to update it. I can probably make this smarter.

Originally Posted by sleen

5. How to Zoom out and stay zoomed out while centering. It keeps snapping back...

That's the correct behavior if you have the "Zoom" button pressed in the main window. Otherwise it means your system is overburdened. Try setting the "Max # of points" to 50 and see if the problem goes away.

Originally Posted by sleen

This is a GREAT program and like others I would find this system complete if some route navigation/directions could be integrated. I have to run Mappoint alongside to keep an eye on exits etc - but unfortunately the GPS or comm port cannot be shared

Try Franson GPSgate or similar port splitter programs.

Originally Posted by Abeh

David,

Having done some comparitive tests between build V1_9_5 and V1_9_1, it appears the initial cursor location problem only manifests in the latest build (V1_9_1)

Hope this helps,

Thx

Thanks Abeh - that does help.

Originally Posted by Cross_

Is there a manual somewhere? I would like to understand what all these checkboxes do..

What is the recommended procedure if networking is not intended ? I delete all tracks but one? Change the host to localhost?

It seems to be in a semi-working state right now, but Goops insists on adding two markers on startup. One is a static label and the other is the 3d cursor. Manually deleting the label works, but what's the proper way of disabling it?

Hi Cross,

Sorry for the lack of documentation. You can check the GooPs website (in my signature).

The 4 vehicles you are seeing are "Demo Mode" vehicles. They will go away when you unselect the "Demo Mode" checkbox in the Options dialog. This puts you in real mode and you will have just one vehicle named "Me". This vehicle represents your local GPS connection.

You can hide the label text by unselecting the the various "Label" checkboxes in the Options dialog. If you want to change the local vehicle name from "Me" just type a new name in the "Name" box in the Options dialog.

Originally Posted by Cross_

Thank you very much, Dave !
For some reason previous tracks showed up in Google Earth, but cleaning the directory, and adjusting the options has somehow solved this. Everything is in working order now.
My only request (echoing that of others) is to use the last known GPS position instead of the Atlantic ocean as starting point if there currently is no signal.

Good to hear GooPs is working for you. That bug will be fixed in the next release.