Livetracking

Hi!
I am using your app for some weeks now and it is a great application. One thing i miss is the possibility for livetracking like in pathaway.

Would be nice if there is a setting for: "Try to send an (user/pass authenticated) http-request every x minutes with parameters for speed, altitude, direction, coordinates to http://x/x".

Getting waypoints peridocally (or by request) from an url (maybe an gpx or a csv file) would also be a nice addition.

Michael

mik wrote:Hi!
I am using your app for some weeks now and it is a great application. One thing i miss is the possibility for livetracking like in pathaway.

Would be nice if there is a setting for: "Try to send an (user/pass authenticated) http-request every x minutes with parameters for speed, altitude, direction, coordinates to http://x/x".

Getting waypoints peridocally (or by request) from an url (maybe an gpx or a csv file) would also be a nice addition.

Michael

Hi, mik;

you can do live tracking with mapmytracks.com.

Added custom url live tracking to my 'TODO' list.

orux

Hi!

I would like to see "custom url live tracking" also. That would be really great.

Kind regards!
Jens

orux wrote:

Added custom url live tracking to my 'TODO' list.

Hi! Watching the application getting better every version makes me happy, but custom url tracking is still missing or did i miss it?
I really want to track using my own server with a custom application. The next feature i am missing if there is live tracking are live waypoints:

url where to download an gpx file every x minutes and displaying them

Michael

mik wrote:

orux wrote:

Added custom url live tracking to my 'TODO' list.

Hi! Watching the application getting better every version makes me happy, but custom url tracking is still missing or did i miss it?
I really want to track using my own server with a custom application. The next feature i am missing if there is live tracking are live waypoints:

url where to download an gpx file every x minutes and displaying them

Michael

Hi, Michael;

you are right;

I promise to add custom live tracking url for next version.

orux

Great news!
I am looking forward for the next version

thx for the fast feedback!

Michael

Looking forward to this! Thanks for the great application!

bmcbride wrote:Looking forward to this! Thanks for the great application!

Hi,

working with last beta-->http://www.oruxmaps.com/cs

orux

Nice! Thanks again!

Is there any documentation on the URL parameters we can pass to the custom URL?

Thanks!

bmcbride wrote:Is there any documentation on the URL parameters we can pass to the custom URL?

Thanks!

Hi;

if you change the url, you get the same data that is defined in the mapmytracks API, on your server.

start/stop/update activity calls.

orux

Thanks for integrating this feature, already up&running after some hacking around with the api-calls.

The new multitracking-feature looks also very interesting, could you document the api and make the url configurable?

Michael

Hi Michael,

I haven't got around to playing around with this yet, but I plan on building a PHP/MySQL demo. Would you mind sharing some of your findings regarding the mapmytracks API?

Thanks!

bmcbride wrote:Hi Michael,

I haven't got around to playing around with this yet, but I plan on building a PHP/MySQL demo. Would you mind sharing some of your findings regarding the mapmytracks API?

Thanks!

Hi,

http://www.mapmytracks.com/about/api

orux

mik wrote:Thanks for integrating this feature, already up&running after some hacking around with the api-calls.

The new multitracking-feature looks also very interesting, could you document the api and make the url configurable?

Michael

Hi, Michael,

At the moment not. When more tested, sure.

orux

orux beat me with posting the api-url.

orux wrote:
Hi, Michael,

At the moment not. When more tested, sure.

orux

Ok, i will wait. The multitrackfeature is way cooler than just posting a livetrack. I used a similar feature heavily on windows mobile with pathaway

Michael

Can you add simple url livetracking. It should be as simple as opening custom url with some data provided as query parameters like:

http://www.mytrackingsite.domain?lat={lat}&lon={lon}&alt={alt}&time={time}&id={myid}

where {lat}, {lon}, and {time} are macros replaced with values of current location and {myid} is user configured.

This url should be accesses periodically, and user could be offered to set updating by time period or by distance from previous track.

This would allow making very simple tracking services it as less as possible data flow.