Check out Andy Powell's post about using Merapi and GPS: http://www.infoaccelerator.net/blog/post.cfm/live-gps-visualizations-with-air-merapi
I have a small app running on my BlackBerry that posts my lat/lon to my own webserver, which just stores it in a DB. The using whatever serverside technology I want (java, php, etc) I could expose a web service to return my coordinates. So you can either communicate directly with the device via Merapi, or push data somehow from the device to a webserver and then pull the data from the server into your Flex app. Doug On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Nate Beck <[email protected]> wrote: > In addition to what Tim said. > > The Merapi project (http://merapiproject.net/), is an excellent candidate > for a project like this. You can use Java to communicate to the GPS unit's > device drivers, and then use that data with webservices or the yahoo maps > API to serve maps in real time. > > Just a thought. > > On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Tim Rowe <[email protected]> wrote: > >> If you want to do it in realtime you're going to first have to decide >> what devices you support. There might be some standards for communication, >> but others go off and do their own thing and those might be the ones you >> want to support. Garmin often take a lot of heat for this (despite what >> they're pushing with ANT+ standards). >> >> Do you have a particular device in mind to start out, and have you done >> any research on what dev tools they have available? Obviously at some point >> you're going to want to abstract things out, but you need to at least have a >> rough idea whether your design is even going to work for real-world existing >> designs and products. >> >> --Tim >> >> ------------------------------ >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] *On >> Behalf Of *Ben Cessa >> *Sent:* Friday, 9 January 2009 11:10 AM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* [flexcoders] GPS in Flex >> >> Hi, I'm planning to build an AIR application but I have a major doubt >> here, by looking at the amazing work of Doug McCune I think is >> possible to integrate real time GPS data into a Map on a Flex >> application, but my question is: how? Just in case the above is not a >> completely clear explanation let me put it with other words: >> >> I wanna know how ( considering first if this is even possible right >> now ) to get data from a GPS device and load it, real time ( well, >> pretty much real time ) inside a map on a Flex and/or AIR application. >> >> I really hope someone with far more experience than myself can point >> in the right direction on this one, thanx in advance for your >> attention, and have all a great new year :) >> >> > > > -- > > Cheers, > Nate > ---------------------------------------- > http://blog.natebeck.net > > > >
