Re: [HOT] Tracking vehicle movements

2019-01-18 Thread Ivan Gayton
Hi Jorieke, My friend Ping (in CC) and I have been working on a very lightweight application for vehicle tracking, specifically intended to work with SMS only (no Internet required—it sends the positions with a formatted SMS message on a particular schedule). Code here:

Re: [HOT] Tracking vehicle movements

2019-01-10 Thread Daniele Cortesi
For real time monitoring you could have a look at https://osmo.mobi/ I can't find the english version of the website but the app has pretty good reviews: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.OsMoDroid Ciao, dan Il giorno gio 10 gen 2019 alle ore 12:50 Jorieke Vyncke <

Re: [HOT] Tracking vehicle movements

2019-01-10 Thread Jorieke Vyncke
Hi all, @Ivan that sounds interesting! Could you tell me more? The other suggestions are forwarded, thank you again. Last is looking at them and will feedback soon! He was already impressed what you collected: "Wow... thanks @Jorieke! Let me look into the feedback" was his reaction this morning.

Re: [HOT] Tracking vehicle movements

2019-01-10 Thread Donal Hunt
I would echo Laurent's words. Deploy the solution that you need and figure out the funding issues. Doing something like SMS-based reporting or emailing data around the place will just move the cost burden elsewhere, be more brittle and probably not get you what you want at the end of the day. The

Re: [HOT] Tracking vehicle movements

2019-01-09 Thread Laurent Savaete
Hey Jorieke, What your question describes sounds like fleet management. I just found https://www.traccar.org/ which looks pretty well maintained (88 contributors on github, latest code update only a few hours ago), is open-source and seems to provide exactly what you're after, without having to

Re: [HOT] Tracking vehicle movements

2019-01-09 Thread John Whelan
In Windows you can use a script to copy the files, compress them and send them. Android should have something equivalent.  If not Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 can build something that will run on android. We seem to be forever seeing requests from students to write software for OSM and HOT

Re: [HOT] Tracking vehicle movements

2019-01-09 Thread Rupert Allan
Hi Jorieke, Ivan has an sms-based tracker he has been developing. Advantage is that, whilst using a gps-enabled phone, it can send without data network. It is developed specifically for fleet. We in Uganda track with OSMAnd, which gives analytics (slope, altitude, speed) in the field, but it

Re: [HOT] Tracking vehicle movements

2019-01-09 Thread Jorieke Vyncke
Thanks a lot for all your suggestions! I suppose easy to use is core, so options with manually copying traces is probably not the best solution. However I will forward all your suggestions to Last, and will leave it up to him to decide what is the best option for them on the ground! If there are

Re: [HOT] Tracking vehicle movements

2019-01-09 Thread Pierre Béland
Hi Jorieke There are small vehicule gps logger, some very precise reading various satellite networks. I tried a Columbus. It did work very well but could not replace the battery. Search simply for vehicule gps logger. This Ebay link show various models, some with an USB connection and / or sim

Re: [HOT] Tracking vehicle movements

2019-01-09 Thread Brent Fraser
Hi Jorieke, I've used GPS Tracker (https://www.websmithing.com/gps-tracker/ and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.websmithing.gpstracker), an Open Source application with some server side code. The client will run on Android, iOS and can listen to cheap GPS devices

Re: [HOT] Tracking vehicle movements

2019-01-09 Thread Blake Girardot
On Wed, Jan 9, 2019 at 8:34 AM Bjoern Hassler wrote: > > Hi Jorieke, > > The best option (from what you've described) that I can think of would be > https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mendhak.gpslogger. I can > record tracks, and then upload them e.g. to dropbox. It's possible to

Re: [HOT] Tracking vehicle movements

2019-01-09 Thread Bjoern Hassler
Hi Jorieke, The best option (from what you've described) that I can think of would be https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mendhak.gpslogger. I can record tracks, and then upload them e.g. to dropbox. It's possible to prefix the track names with device numbers, so you know which

Re: [HOT] Tracking vehicle movements

2019-01-09 Thread Paul Uithol
Hi Jorieke, I know Ivan has been working on some forms of open source/lightweight vehicle tracking recently. Ivan, do you have more details? Would this be fit for purpose & ready for use? best, Paul On 9-1-2019 13:50, Jorieke Vyncke wrote: Hello all, Forwarding you a question from Last, our