Re: ideas for a personal cluster with gta04

2012-06-24 Thread robin
hi, I have just seen that marble intends to use wlan router positions for gps routing as well. they talk about http://www.openwlanmap.org/ and a library: libwlocate maybe this is of interest to your project. best regards robin ___ Openmoko

Re: ideas for a personal cluster with gta04

2012-06-17 Thread Onen
Hi, for a given cell, it gives you the average position of the cell coverage, based on where it has been seen by openbmap logs. I am not sure if the signal strength is being used in computing that position. You should ask on the openbmap website, as I have not worked very much on the

Re: ideas for a personal cluster with gta04

2012-06-15 Thread robin
hi, I had seen that they also provide an online api, though as far as I understand for each cell that your phone sees it you can get the gps data of the cell. So now you have eg the coordinates and signal strengths from 4 cells how do you calculate where you are. Is there a function for the have

Re: ideas for a personal cluster with gta04

2012-06-14 Thread Onen
Hi, the openbmap project proposes a Web API for getting location, based on the GSM data or WiFi. The data is available for offline use too. http://openbmap.org/api/openbmap_api.php5 Your example about navit, has been a target use case for the project for a long time ;-) (speeding up the

Re: ideas for a personal cluster with gta04

2012-06-12 Thread Al Johnson
On Wednesday 06 June 2012 09:38:58 robin wrote: what did you have in mind for the geolocating via gsm towers and wifi? http://openbmap.org ? do you know any projects which make use of such data (triangulation). this might be very interesting to enhance navit's routing possibilities if it

Re: ideas for a personal cluster with gta04

2012-06-06 Thread robin
what did you have in mind for the geolocating via gsm towers and wifi? http://openbmap.org ? do you know any projects which make use of such data (triangulation). this might be very interesting to enhance navit's routing possibilities if it takes to long to get a gps-fix. regards robin

Re: ideas for a personal cluster with gta04

2012-06-06 Thread Boudewijn
On Wednesday 06 June 2012 00:23:39 joa...@verona.se wrote: dmatthews.org m...@dmatthews.org writes: Hi Joakim Your client/server ideas made for an interseting post I wondered what software you had in mind for this:- *** mapping/location data open streetmap maps. A gpsd on the

Re: ideas for a personal cluster with gta04

2012-06-06 Thread Boudewijn
On Wednesday 06 June 2012 21:38:07 Boudewijn wrote: On Wednesday 06 June 2012 00:23:39 joa...@verona.se wrote: dmatthews.org m...@dmatthews.org writes: Hi Joakim Your client/server ideas made for an interseting post I wondered what software you had in mind for this:- ***

Re: ideas for a personal cluster with gta04

2012-06-06 Thread joakim
robin spielr...@web.de writes: what did you have in mind for the geolocating via gsm towers and wifi? http://openbmap.org ? Yes this seems very suitable! do you know any projects which make use of such data (triangulation). this might be very interesting to enhance navit's routing

Re: ideas for a personal cluster with gta04

2012-06-06 Thread joakim
Boudewijn wankelwan...@yahoo.com writes: On Wednesday 06 June 2012 00:23:39 joa...@verona.se wrote: dmatthews.org m...@dmatthews.org writes: Hi Joakim Your client/server ideas made for an interseting post I wondered what software you had in mind for this:- *** mapping/location

Re: ideas for a personal cluster with gta04

2012-06-05 Thread dmatthews.org
Hi Joakim Your client/server ideas made for an interseting post I wondered what software you had in mind for this:- *** mapping/location data open streetmap maps. A gpsd on the client feeds the cluster with location data. Could you give a little more detail please Best wishes --

Re: ideas for a personal cluster with gta04

2012-06-05 Thread joakim
dmatthews.org m...@dmatthews.org writes: Hi Joakim Your client/server ideas made for an interseting post I wondered what software you had in mind for this:- *** mapping/location data open streetmap maps. A gpsd on the client feeds the cluster with location data. Could you give a

Re: ideas for a personal cluster with gta04

2012-05-22 Thread Neil Jerram
joa...@verona.se writes: In the spirit of the recent ideas threads here, I'd like to share my ideas that I would like to achieve with the gta04, as part of a larger system. I wrote it in an article format, and it isn't finished, but nothing ever is. So here goes. I really like your ideas. I

Re: ideas for a personal cluster with gta04

2012-05-22 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:37 AM, joa...@verona.se wrote: *** instant messaging irc clients on the laptop or phone uses the server as gateway to other systems. Bitlbee is used for the proxy. znc fronts bitlbee, which handles the connections and logging. Any reason not to use Jabber (XMPP)?

Re: ideas for a personal cluster with gta04

2012-05-22 Thread joakim
Christ van Willegen cvwille...@gmail.com writes: On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 11:37 AM, joa...@verona.se wrote: *** instant messaging irc clients on the laptop or phone uses the server as gateway to other systems. Bitlbee is used for the proxy. znc fronts bitlbee, which handles the connections

ideas for a personal cluster with gta04

2012-05-21 Thread joakim
In the spirit of the recent ideas threads here, I'd like to share my ideas that I would like to achieve with the gta04, as part of a larger system. I wrote it in an article format, and it isn't finished, but nothing ever is. So here goes. ** introduction I'm interested in free client - server