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[Announce] Snuggle : Geolocation using CellID and Google APIs
The Snuggle application (http://maemo.org/packages/view/snuggle/) uses the cell tower information to locate the geolocation coordinates.
It captures the CellID parameters (available from the connected GSM network) and by using Google APIs translates those to locate your position in a map. In detail:
Usage description: The user interface shows four buttons;
When I get some time will create a wiki to give additional information on the usage, settings and implications. The application is in extras-devel at the moment. Feel free to post comments and ideas for additions Future Plans: Primary objective was to give a quick access at the location present. In my opinion this has been accomplished in the version at extras-testing. Next version (which is running on my device and needs some more work to be ready for upload) has in addition a daemon in the background logging silently the cells the device connects continuously. This part is ready and has been running for more than 2 weeks in my device without any significant power consumption. All data are stored in a SQL DB. A configurable tracker will be available that grabs from a Google API the geolocation data for the Cell IDs recorded and updates the DB automatically on selected network connections and date/time settings. An additional panel allows the user to grab from another Google API the locations between two dates and creates a KML file that can be directly uploaded in google maps and show the path/places visited. This part is missing the date/time selector but the rest of the code is ready. |
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testing right now and nothing happens when i press "Coordinates"
"CellID" worked fine. How long does it take normally? |
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Do you have a network connection active? If yes, can you run it from xterm and pm me with the messages you get? Code:
/opt/locatefromcell/Locate_From_Cell |
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Tesing it, and it all seems to work fine for me.
Thanks! Screeny: http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/2...1042512443.png |
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Code:
$ /opt/locatefromcell/Locate_From_Cell |
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Works really great and fast as ****. Thanks a lot, although there are some bugs. No portrait mode.
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just go to settings>phone>network and change network mode by GSM and it worked for me! it did not work for me on 3G mode!!!!! |
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Uploaded a new version (1.2-1) with better info and some small new features.
Changelog:
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Maybe I need to add some padding for cases like this in the code but I don't know really what is needed yet. Thanks for the fail case. |
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Yes it's fast (especially if the network is wifi) since the data are not much. Including the image grabbed, it is still < 100 kB. About the portrait mode, The application responds to the movement of the device (check the About window that works nicely). For the main window I haven't found any info on how to instruct the Qt Designer to produce a layout that works on both modes. my question is similar to that made here for example: http://maemo.org/community/maemo-dev...bfae7bae1bae1/ Any help appreciated. |
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