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#31
Originally Posted by seridyan View Post
I have 1.9-1
Strange, as my version displays 1.9-1 in the about window.....
 
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#32
Could I see coords of other people with this application ?
 
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#33
Originally Posted by Dragoss91 View Post
Could I see coords of other people with this application ?
No, not directly. If they sent to you the info for the cell they were on, say by sms, you could enter that information using the edit function and derive the coords.
 
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#34
What an effective app. It's really fast. Kudos for you!

Just one question:
When I press Browser or Image, the result of my location vary by 4 or 5 blocks of distance.
What happens? Because the coordinates are the same in the app.
 
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#35
Originally Posted by sr00t View Post
What an effective app. It's really fast. Kudos for you!
Thanks for the nice words.

My primary objective was to give me a quick access to the place I was at the time.
In my opinion this has been accomplished in the version at extras-testing.

Next version (which is running on my device only 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.

A new panel allows the user to grab from another 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.

Just one question:
When I press Browser or Image, the result of my location vary by 4 or 5 blocks of distance.
What happens? Because the coordinates are the same in the app.
That is strange and can only attributed in differences between Google APIs. In my case, both show the same exactly location.

If you like you can send me an example location and I'll try to investigate further.
 
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#36
Cool idea! Could you cache the returned values, so that in case one doesn't have an internet connection, but is again in a place that he/she has been before, the information can be returned immediately? (not having looked at the data that is sent, this might not be possible, depending on how fine-grained the input data is)

It would be great for this application to create an "offline positioning database" based on all the cell information. Also, can't you just record all the cellIDs while a user is running around in offline mode, then (if the user wants to) geocode all these IDs when the user is online the next time and save all this in the database for later retrieval?
 
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Originally Posted by thp View Post
Cool idea! Could you cache the returned values, so that in case one doesn't have an internet connection, but is again in a place that he/she has been before, the information can be returned immediately? (not having looked at the data that is sent, this might not be possible, depending on how fine-grained the input data is)
Could be done but it would mean creating a db etc. Eventually would be another map application. I will invest some time in finding a way to call the already available ovi maps on the location found. I know it is possible, but haven't found the time to search for the appropriate dbus call.

It would be great for this application to create an "offline positioning database" based on all the cell information. Also, can't you just record all the cellIDs while a user is running around in offline mode, then (if the user wants to) geocode all these IDs when the user is online the next time and save all this in the database for later retrieval?
This is basically what the next version will bring. A daemon will log all the cell ids it gets connected and later when wifi connection is available it will allow to get the geolocations visited.

In future, I would like to create a db to store all data and maybe add a tracker that updates automatically the geolocation data on selected network connections and date/time settings.

My knowledge is limited in the sql database creation and that makes it even more interesting for me. Unfortunately, I haven't found a good tutorial on sql and python yet.

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Originally Posted by Saturn View Post
Unfortunately, I haven't found a good tutorial on sql and python yet.
Python provides the sqlite3 module which makes it easy to create a single-file database. If you want it even more comfortable, feel free to use minidb which is a minimalistic data store for simple Python objects that uses SQLite3 as the backend, but exposes a nicer API (while still allowing to access the underlying DB if you choose to).

Plus, Stack Overflow has an answer to your question: comprehensive beginner's tutorial for python and sqlite?
 

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#39
Hello there !

any news about using snuggle with smscon ?
it could be great if your friends could send you a sms with eg the word "cell" and in return get the picture and/or browser link send by mail/sms
 

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#40
Originally Posted by Julien_2006 View Post
Hello there !

any news about using snuggle with smscon ?
it could be great if your friends could send you a sms with eg the word "cell" and in return get the picture and/or browser link send by mail/sms
Have you read smscon wiki? there is already command for gps data and a map on google
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