Tech stuff

From CallDist

How to connect a pda to the command center.

The flow

• Pda sends text file to server with its current location
  • using gprs: Internet Access GPRS explanation
  • using wifi: problem range
• Server parses txt file to mySQL
• Server produces kml file from mySQL
• Command center sees app:
  • Google earth
    • advantages: lots of predefined things
    • disadvantages: limited; there is a Google Earth API that communicates with AppleScript but it is very very limited
  • Google maps, some book
    • advantages: flexible, can program yourself using either Google Maps API or Google Mapplets
    • disadvantages: not as much embedded functionality as google earth
  • Nasa World Wind
    • advantages: Total flexibility (open source)
    • disadvantages: Won't run on mac,
  • Own application visualizes KML file
    • advantages: all flexibility you want
    • disadvantages: you have to write all this flexibility
• Person adds waypoint
• PDA asks for its new waypoint given its current location

Google map keys.

Thank you for signing up for a Google Maps API key! Your key is: ABQIAAAAbU4ZZ0qcYXL4KpgsRf3EvBQaFwxsBFsC2fvXbPPoo90PGhSypRTLil8V0xe5asTZpjbChBypOz7LXQ This key is good for all URLs in this directory: http://www.mmi.tudelft.nl/~colldist/cgi-bin/

Thank you for signing up for a Google Maps API key! Your key is: ABQIAAAAbU4ZZ0qcYXL4KpgsRf3EvBQ9ymSfES5lmG-b1ltu2Z-PBHK4cBSLlwRqH9qcooyJyQNULAi2a3vqJw This key is good for all URLs in this directory: http://www.mmi.tudelft.nl/~colldist/

Thank you for signing up for a Google Maps API key! Your key is: ABQIAAAAODs5p35YXsA_eiUOT9kwPBTMrBv3GLNP0SNfKgi1He9rZBIRCRQx0lU4XHGCbOGN0SPPDibySsdr9w This key is good for all URLs in this directory: http://riga.twi.tudelft.nl/~colldist

Thank you for signing up for a Google Maps API key! Your key is: ABQIAAAAODs5p35YXsA_eiUOT9kwPBTdrwQttUPkvTFEpp7ZvsWWZ5wTwBQMy1XRT43l8gydwD14gNYn3YmQEw This key is good for all URLs in this directory: www.mmi.tudelft.nl/~maarten

iPhone stuff

we want to develop on the iPhone before we received a key from our friends at Apple. Website is in Dutch: [1]

The tool can be downloaded from: [2] I did not look into it much deeper, because I have no mac to install it on... A tool for windows should be available soon.