Re: [flexcoders] GPS in Flex
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 d...@dougmccune.com 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 n...@tldstudio.com 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 tim.r...@carsales.com.auwrote: 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:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Ben Cessa *Sent:* Friday, 9 January 2009 11:10 AM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *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
Re: [flexcoders] GPS in Flex
Hi, thnx a lot for your answers, as for the devices I have no attachment to a specific brand or something, at this point we are doing the research first so, any known device with appropriate support for this kind of application will be just fine, hopefully someone here know about such device and will let me know. Secondly reading a bit on the merapi forums I do came across an interesting project on this that use an adaptation of JavaGPS to handle the data but It seems to work only when a device is attached to a computer so I can't really follow the actual position of a device remotely ( hopefully I'm wrong here and someone will let me know ). Finally the Doug example of the BlackBerry sounds great, I'm researching on this right now and I think this could be my solution if I can't find a way to track the actual position of a device remotely using just GPS. Thanks again for your time and attention. On Jan 8, 2009, at 6:47 PM, Doug McCune 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 n...@tldstudio.com 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 tim.r...@carsales.com.au 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: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ben Cessa Sent: Friday, 9 January 2009 11:10 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 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
Re: [flexcoders] GPS in Flex
During WebDU 2007 I presented a similar solution only using Ruby instead. If you want you can have it. As part of the example during the presentation I used one of those Palm GPS mouses. But it should work with all GPS devices which support NMEA standard.
[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 :)
RE: [flexcoders] GPS in Flex
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: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Ben Cessa Sent: Friday, 9 January 2009 11:10 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com 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 :)
Re: [flexcoders] GPS in Flex
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 tim.r...@carsales.com.au 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:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Ben Cessa *Sent:* Friday, 9 January 2009 11:10 AM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *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
Re: [flexcoders] GPS in Flex
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 n...@tldstudio.com 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 tim.r...@carsales.com.au 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:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:flexcod...@yahoogroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Ben Cessa *Sent:* Friday, 9 January 2009 11:10 AM *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com *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
