Joe, Or you could consider HAM/APRS/GPS (http://www.tapr.org/aprs.html) since your application is not commercial.
The total weight (GPS+transmitter) would exceed the cell phone, but there are no air time costs. If you have to buy a new cell phone the equipment cost might be similar...
Brent Fraser Joseph Monahan wrote:
Hello all, Long time reader, first time poster... I'm working on a personal project to track my bike ride across the country this summer. I wanted to do something with live tracking but not have to buy an expensive gps unit and subscription. I'm also looking to carry as little weight as possible. So I was thinking, why not use my cell phone (or a cell phone that has the potential to do the following)? I'm thinking I could use some software (and hopefully not have to write it) to triangulate my position via cell towers (similar to how the iphone works). That averaged position would then be submitted somehow to my server which takes it and updates my map. The problem is: is there such software to triangulate, ideally one that will also take that position and send it out to something (email, txt, whatever)? Any other ideas, advice, help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Joe _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
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