Hi Doug,Is it ok if i ask you a blackberry question off list? thanks percy On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:47 PM, Doug McCune <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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 >> >> >> > >
