Re: [talk-ph] ideas for tracking stepjuan's journey

2011-03-15 Thread Jim Morgan
Another useful looking tool ... http://www.opengts.org/ Jim ___ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph

Re: [talk-ph] ideas for tracking stepjuan's journey (Fwd: STEPJUAN Bai: A walking expedition for Children with Cancer)

2011-03-07 Thread Andre Marcelo-Tanner
Make sure to test the actual droid phone + app to see how fast it can acquire a GPS lock and send it with the tweet or else it might be sending tweets without the GEO info i guess the best way to save batt is to use the GPS and GPRS only every now and then. what if theres no signal or bad gprs

Re: [talk-ph] ideas for tracking stepjuan's journey (Fwd: STEPJUAN Bai: A walking expedition for Children with Cancer)

2011-03-07 Thread rem zamora
maybe stepjuan can use this: http://explorersweb.com/tech/news.php?id=19336 http://explorersweb.com/tech/news.php?id=19336i've seen one in ROX high street outdoor store. On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Andre Marcelo-Tanner an...@enthropia.comwrote: Make sure to test the actual droid phone +

Re: [talk-ph] ideas for tracking stepjuan's journey (Fwd: STEPJUAN Bai: A walking expedition for Children with Cancer)

2011-03-07 Thread Jim Morgan
Andre Marcelo-Tanner wrote, On Monday, 07 March, 2011 08:51 PM: Make sure to test the actual droid phone + app to see how fast it can acquire a GPS lock and send it with the tweet or else it might be sending tweets without the GEO info But this is pretty much what the Globe GPS tracking

Re: [talk-ph] ideas for tracking stepjuan's journey (Fwd: STEPJUAN Bai: A walking expedition for Children with Cancer)

2011-03-06 Thread maning sambale
Thanks for all the tips. In the first StepJuan expedition, I gave him one GPSTOGO unit, at the end of each day, he sends the file to me. I then process the file and upload in the website. The process is onerous both for me and Tomas' so I'm thinking of automating this process. The best I can

Re: [talk-ph] ideas for tracking stepjuan's journey (Fwd: STEPJUAN Bai: A walking expedition for Children with Cancer)

2011-03-06 Thread Noli Sicad
TweetDeck has live geotag and it is free. http://www.wirefresh.com/tweetdeck-for-iphone-gets-update-to-v1-3/ http://www.tweetdeck.com/android/ How you get the geo-tweets display in your custom map - openlayers or wms / tile server? Noli On 3/7/11, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.com

Re: [talk-ph] ideas for tracking stepjuan's journey (Fwd: STEPJUAN Bai: A walking expedition for Children with Cancer)

2011-03-05 Thread Andre Marcelo-Tanner
Well what can he carry, a GPS logger is easy to carry and runs fine on batt but it only logs, so what possible device can be used to log and upload at the same time or if it just logs, how often can an upload be done? Once you have something which can upload, you just figure out how to

[talk-ph] ideas for tracking stepjuan's journey (Fwd: STEPJUAN Bai: A walking expedition for Children with Cancer)

2011-03-04 Thread maning sambale
StepJuan is back on the road. For brief background, we helped Tomas and the StepJuan crew last year in mapping his journey from Paguppud Ilocos to Matnog, Sorsogon. We provided him one of the gpstogo units to track the whole journey. All traces are in OSM:

Re: [talk-ph] ideas for tracking stepjuan's journey (Fwd: STEPJUAN Bai: A walking expedition for Children with Cancer)

2011-03-04 Thread Jim Morgan
maning sambale wrote, On Friday, 04 March, 2011 08:06 PM: This year he is planning to do the Visayas leg. I'm looking for ideas on how we can once again track the journey and show a webmap. Are there any GPS tracker available wherein we can directly interface to an OSM map? The StepJuan