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

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: http://www.openstreetmap.org/traces/tag

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

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

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

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 display

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

I think these 2 free apps are useful for this purpose (i.e. getting gpx and csv and emailing it). Android - MyTracks http://mytracks.appspot.com/ http://code.google.com/p/mytracks/ Iphone - Record my GPS position http://itunes.apple.com/app/record-my-gps-position/id405865492?mt=8 Noli On 3/6/1

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

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 t

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

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 wrote: > Thanks for all the

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

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)

maybe stepjuan can use this: http://explorersweb.com/tech/news.php?id=19336 i've seen one in ROX high street outdoor store. On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 8:51 PM, Andre Marcelo-Tanner wrote: > Make sure to test the actual droid phone + app to see how f

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

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 sy