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as android has flourished a little google wants to lock everything in . So more unaware people are lured to have one thus increasing google stronghold

Yes, I'm well aware of the Google lock-in. They are slowly killing 3rd party access...

I've thrown together some php to create my own simplistic latitude on my own server...

Now I just need an update tool on n900 to do call a simple https URL to push the data to my server.

Any chance that ZapLoc can do this? I wanted to change it myself, sadly the 'source' of ZapLoc is compiled python, so much for open source

I can dump my php code if anybody wants....

I pushed a version of ZapLoc that is totally open sourced. I can't be bothered with these revolving-door services of location stuff anymore, plus, I don't really use my N900 any mo'

Send me any changes you do, I'll incorporate it.

Maybe I should set up a github or something for ZapLoc.... dunno?

/Z

yay... I'll probably just hack in my 'system' in the zlatitude file, expect a sample of my system soon

Thanks a lot, MasterZap!!!

And here is my very simplistic Latitude knockoff...

Petur Longitude

It consists of:

zlatitude.py : replacement file to copy over your existing ZapLoc installation. You will need to edit 67 to enter your server URL

set.php : called by the modded zlatitude.py for checkin, syntax is:
http(s)://my.server.name/set.php?lat=12.345678&long=23.456879&who=MyUserNam e

show.php : called in your browser to show last checkin or location update, syntax is:
http(s)://my.server.name/show.php?who=MyUserName

For every MyUserName that is passed on to set.php, it will create a MyUserName.dat file, so you can have multiple users.

This is a functional but quickly hacked solution that suits my needs (lets my family know where I am so they can guess when I will be home if I'm stuck in traffic or held up somewhere).

Again BIG THANKS to MasterZap for providing the code of ZapLoc so that I could piggyback on his great program!

Enjoy!

Now that is the easy way. ZapLoc is actually written to have any number of location based "services", so in *principle* you could have written your own. In theory. Sort of.

But hey, ding dong, latitude is dead, so whatever you did works just fine

I'm gonna set up a Github for this when I find time, which isn't any time very soon.....sadly.

I know there are some changes lately to facebook checkins too, I think they don't work either, so the app is kinda useless these days anyway, probably only works half-arsed with foursquare these days..?

/Z

Yes I saw, nice framework you made... My hack shows up as Petur Longitude in ZapLoc services screen

If there's enough interest I could clean it up, add features, even set up a free to use server...

Would be awesome

I use it rather constantly for FourSquare. The pic upload stuff doesn't work, but otherwise it works well. Used it in Spain to find several local places actually, and to navigate around with (and even checked in a few spots).

Just curious, if you're going to make it open-source, why not push it to a garage on maemo.org?