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Onko sinulla GPS-laite? Tule mukaan tekemään Youloc-palvelua sille!

June 20, 2009 in Open source | No comments

proto.youloc.net

proto.youloc.net

Short in English: see www.youloc.net!

Jotta kiinnostuisit hommasta, vilkaise ensin sivua proto.youloc.net. Klikkaa kartalla näkyvää vihreää pistettä niin näet nimen, nopeuden ja koordinaatit. Jep, se on joku nykyisistä youloc.net -prototyypin käyttäjistä tai simuloitu liikkuja. Klikkaamalla ‘zoom in and follow’ näet tarkemmin missä kyseinen täppä menee. Kokeile myös seuraavia:

  • klikkaa kartan oikean reunan + -nappulaa, valitse sieltä ‘user tracking’. Nyt näet myös liikkujan historiaa.
  • paina yläreunasta ‘USERS’ nähdäksesi muiden (ei-liikkeellä olevien) käyttäjien tietoja.

Noniin, nyt kun kiinnostus on herätetty konkreettisella esimerkillä päästään asiaan.

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GPS fix in less than 20s on Freerunner

February 7, 2009 in Openmoko | 2 comments

It takes usually some 40-120 seconds for Freerunner GPS to get the first fix (TTFF = Time To First Fix) after powering on the GPS (and starting gpsd?). Some months ago I heard about AGPS or Assisted GPS which basically means that the current location of GPS satellites is downloaded from a server over GPRS. So I added AGPS in my Openmoko Ideas/Wishlist – if commercial phones can do it, why couldn’t Freerunner :)

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Freerunner compatible GPS software

September 23, 2008 in Openmoko | 3 comments

I have an Openmoko Freerunner phone and I like it a lot. OK, it has some glitches (like I don’t feel comfortable using it as my daily phone because of the bad battery duration and audio quality, both fixable with software) but it has GPS, accelerometers, GPRS, WLAN and Linux so I’m pretty happy and waiting for the software to become more usable. Since this is my first GPS device I’m kind of interested in the GPS tools and applications and here’s a short review of some tools I’ve tried.

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Invitation for all Open Source GPS software developers and users to join FOSS-GPS mailing list

September 19, 2008 in Open source | 2 comments

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Yesterday I wrote about this idea to start a mailing list to gather Open Source developers and users to a single mailing list to share their ideas, announce releases, share patches and so on on a single list. Only a day later it’s reality so now I warmly welcome all FOSS GPS software developers and users to foss-gps@lists.osgeo.org

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A mailing list for the FLOSS-GPS community?

September 17, 2008 in Open source | 11 comments

As far as I know, there isn’t any simple or single way to communicate with the people who use GPS devices with Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) or the developers of these programs. Maybe now it’s the time to start one when all kinds of positioning tools and services are becoming more and more popular.

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