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I am using Nokia 770 + I-blue GPS + RAZR V3 (T-mobile internet) to make a GPS tracker. I had previously set this up using a Sprint card and a laptop, but this is much more mobile and wireless.

http://www.penguinbait.com/index.html

Best time to watch for me driving is M-F 8-9AM EST or 5-6PM EST.

Linux Rocks!!!!

My Nokia collects info from I-Blue and sends it to my webpage via RAZR t-mobile where it creates dynamic html pages.
 
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This is awesome.
Being a ham radio operator, I've been using APRS ( http://aprs.net ) for a few years. APRS is doing the same thing, but over ham radio bands.
Now that you've got this to work, it's a great step towards some mobile location based apps, thanks to a two-way internet!
What are you using for the software? Is it a custome script of some sorts?
 
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Its all shell scripts, it runs a shell script to pull the data and convert it into useful information ie lat lon speed elevation

Then it uses wget to make a http request to a cgi script on my linux webserver

That processes the string of numbers into new webpages with links to the maps. All the maps are pulled directly from expedia and terraserver to you, thus saving my bandwidth.

Glad you enjoyed it. I had this running for about 2 years, but my sprint service ended a while ago.

its nice now, I can charge up and go, no power sources needed!
 
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Great stuff. I'd really love to see some of this code. I realize you need to keep the input methods to your cgi a secret, but It would be nice to see how this was done. The two specific parts I am interested in are the conversions of the data pulled from the GPS to Lat and Lon, and second the URL construction for the data from Expedia and Terraserver.

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