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Kyle Archer is headed to New Jersey today to swoon our future clients at the COST Expo 2007 tradeshow. He took our Where's Tim phone, so you can view his current GPS location on Google Maps in real time (updates automatically every 15 seconds). You can view his location here. Or download the Where's Tim task tray alerter. It's ClickOnce, so it's double cool. Bring home the bacon, Kyle! Technorati tags: Kyle Archer, EnGraph, New Jersey, Where's Tim, GPS, Google Maps, COST Expo...
I just made it to Philly (despite running late this morning and checking in 32 minutes before my flight) and met up with Kyle. He has been on a EnGraph crusade as of late, visiting six clients in the last two weeks. He writes more about it on his blog. We are visiting a client in Salem, NJ this week, adding new GPS units to their system and troubleshooting some existing units. Matt Strausz is joining us on Tuesday to help with the installation. It should be a good week. I'm looking forward to some...
Dru was kind enough to tag me on how I could be a better developer. I think that in addition to being a better developer, I also need to deliver better applications. We all have different reasons for our geeky ways, and mine is to create applications that save people time. So here is my list: Start giving more talks - I really enjoy giving my talks on Ajax.net and Real time GPS implications, but I'm not an expert on AJAX and most people find my opinions on GPS to be a bit "abrasive". I need to isolate...
The Google Maps API blog talks about adding driving directions to their API. This is something that I am excited about adding to Where's Tim. I've had directions to me on my real time GPS site for a while (see the post here), but I've always just shelled out a url to maps.google.com. Now I can retain the users of that feature on my site and not have to send them away (hoping that they will come back). This is also big for the mashup "industry" as well. Visually understanding where an object resides...
I've been working on implementing CoT XML standard for describing location based data. Here is the C# code for an .aspx page that will render XML More infomation about CoT can be found here: using System;using System.Data;using System.Configuration;using System.Collections;using System.Web;using System.Web.Security;using System.Web.UI;using System.Web.UI.WebControls;u... System.Web.UI.WebControls.W... System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;... System.Xml;public partial class cot : System.Web.UI.Page{...
Where's Tim hasn't been getting much attention the last couple of months. A little bit here and there, but nothing like the Digg days of last summer. I've got several requests for information the last week or so though. Joab Jackson (who did a National Geographic story last October) is working on an article. Ronan Fitzgerald (who did an article in The Guardian) has been emailing me about the Social Geocoding studs NavXS. Davey Winder is also working on a mashup article. I'll post the links to these...
Yesterday, Jonathan Umscheid started full time with EnGraph. He's been working on a contract basis for us for a bit now and it's great to have him on board full time! Jonathan and David are doing some really cool things with our AutoCAD project and they really need to start blogging about it! We are still looking to fill a position for a .NET developer that will help Kyle and I on our transportation and GPS software (you might even get your own Where's Tim). Technorati tags: Jonathan Umscheid, David...
Carl is driving to Colorado and wants people to watch his progress with GPS and send him text messages. Click here to see him on a Google Map and click the icon on the map once you get there to send him a text message. Technorati tags: Where's Tim, GPS, Google Maps...
As Kyle blogged about and I blogged about a couple months ago, we are still looking to hire at least one person to do .NET development in the Kansas City area. We have some really cool projects going on and we just don't have the resources to take everything on. We are thinking about advertising in CareerBuilder. They have some good packages for print and internet exposure. Has anybody worked with CareerBuilder? Have any good or bad stories? Know any friends that are interested in working with .NET...
Jeff Julian - Mr. GeeksWithBlogs - was nice enough to tag me, so here are five things you probably don't know about me. 1) I have a chapstick addiction. It's bad, I go through a stick every couple of weeks. It's really not my fault though, my Mom and sisters are just as bad as me. 2) I'm a bad driver. I feel sorry for anybody that has to ride with me. I go out of turn at four-way stops, run too many yellow(ish) lights, liberally interpret lane dividing lines, and generally assume that I have the...
Iain Martin (a student on the post graduate diploma in journalism at Cardiff University) wrote an article about the mainstreaming of geography and geotagging journalism. He talked briefly about Where's Tim and included some of my quotes on how GIS will impact various industries. He even mentioned Social Geocoding. Well, it was in a quote from me, but he still published it! He also spoke of Jerome Dobson and his concerns of loss of privacy. It's funny how we always get mentioned together in articles....
A couple French websites talked about Where's Tim today. After translating them to English, I was a bit surprised to read the negative/paranoid connotation of the comments. Maybe the intent was lost in translation, but one guy mentioned radio controlled missiles and burglary. Translations here, here and here to see comments. I have not been to France or hung out with anyone that has spent an extended time in France. That being said, I wonder if something about the French culture or government spawns...
You're going to be hearing a lot more about the Social Geocoding service, NavXS. It's MySpace meets Where's Tim. These guys do it right. They have a Windows Mobile client, a Java client, Google Maps interface and a rock solid permissions model. They also have a blog here. Technorati tags: NavXS, Social Geocoding, GPS, location sharing, Where's Tim...
Matt Dunbar & Co. did a fantastic job putting together GIS day at Kansas University. My favorite part of the day was judging the student competition. Seven students gave ten minute presentations on unique uses of GIS. They showed everything from a geographic boundary of where grits are consumed (apparently South Carolina is the capital of all that is grits) to a traffic analysis of SW Douglas Country in Kansas. The winner was Lincoln Lewis. He showed how to make GIS data pretty using a suite...
The people putting on GIS Day at Kansas University tomorrow built a Google Maps mashup showing where are the presenters and attendees are located. That's a lot of people. I hope they like listening to a .NET geek ramble on about GPS :) They are going to video record each session, so if you don't get a chance to make it (Kyle), you'll still be able to join in on the fun. They will also be posting the slide deck from each session. Technorati tags: GIS Day, Google Maps, Kansas University, GPS...
Rachael King from Business Week writes about Where's Tim: Meet Tim Hibbard. It's 11:45 p.m. on a Wednesday night and Hibbard is currently near the intersection of Jacob and Ranch Streets in Lawrence, Kan. It's a cool 50 degrees outside. He's not moving around now, but he's traveled a total of 28.42 miles today. And no, I'm not stalking him. Very cool. She also talked with John Musser of ProgrammableWeb (THE place for web API's). He talks about the article on his blog. Technorati tags: Where's Tim,...
Tim from GPS Review revisits the idea of submitting a GPS tracklog to your insurance company to prove you are a good driver in exchange for better rates. This particular program is in the UK called "Pay as you Drive". David Starr talked about a similar program in Canada a couple months ago. I still think this is a good idea. In order for GPS to be profitable in the consumer market, the end person being tracked must be in full control. In both of these cases, participation is voluntary and the consumer...
Kansas University (right here in Lawrence, KS) puts on a Geographic Information Systems day every year. A couple months ago, Matt Dunbar contacted me and asked if I would speak about personal tracking. My talk is titled "Big Brother is on MySpace. How GPS will change our everyday lives (in a good way)" After some shameless promotion of Where's Tim and EnGraph, I plan to talk about how real time GPS can add a new dimension to social networking sites like MySpace. I also plan to talk about enhancing...
Heartland Developers Conference 2006 in Omaha was a huge success! Joe Olson, Phil Wolfe and everybody else involved did a great job getting everything put together. Day 1: Joe Stagner did the opening keynote on Federated Logic. Basically using data sources that live anywhere on the internet with ASMX web services. He even talked a little bit about GPS and web based mapping solutions. Something that is near and dear to my heart. Next, I went to Dave Donaldson's talk on Power Programming with Attributes....
The Messenger blog talked today about using their protocol handler to initiate IM conversations from an a href or command prompt. The idea is to use their handler (msnim:) as you would a typical handler like mailto. I wonder how hard that is to implement. That would help our clients transition smoother between our .NET and non-.NET applications. For example, if they had a vehicle loaded in our ParaPlan software and wanted to see where the vehicle had been that day, we could put an a href link that...
Kyle and I are sitting in the Philadelphia airport hoping that our flight doesn't get delayed again. So far, it's only been delayed an hour, but they are delaying and canceling flights left and right. I met a guy named Curt Walz who works for Sygma, a fast food distributor. He was telling me how they use RFID to tell the warehouse workers which items to pick for the order they are completing. The RFID reader actually mounts on the workers forearm and alerts them when they need to pick an item. I...
Kyle and I are at the airport getting ready to head to Salem. Tulsa TechFest 2006 was awesome. Lots of attendees and great sessions. They did a great job keeping everything organized. And to Chris Williams, my laptop acted up when I plugged into their projector too, so it had nothing to do with your projector, my laptop is just possesed. More details about TechFest later, I met some very interesting people. I've never actually gotten a GPS reading at takeoff or landing, but I'll keep trying. Technorati...
This weekend, I'm heading to the Tulsa TechFest 2006 to give my AJAXPro talk. Sunday, Kyle and I are going to Salem, New Jersy to see one of our clients. The Heartland Developers Conference is coming up the week after that. I'm speaking at the Kansas University GIS day in November. I will be speaking in the same session as Dr. Jerome Dobson. I've heard that he is not a big fan of GPS, so that should be interesting. My talk is called "Big Brother is on MySpace. How GPS will change our everyday lives...
I was looking at Sami's Where's Tim, and noticed he was at the Stockholm airport. Now, I don't know this for a fact, but I think he gets GPS data when he is actually on the plane. I've seen speeds upto 325 kph in his location RSS feed. That's over 200 mph. I'm going to keep my eye on him today. He was in Paris a couple weeks ago. It was right around the time that I added flickr support. It was so cool to see the satellite images of where he was and pictures that other people had taken of where he...
I did an interview with Sky News this morning. It was a bit odd because the idea was do a prerecorded interview over webcam, but we had technical difficulties getting their cameras to pick up my video and sound, so we did the video over the webcam and sound over the cell phone. On his end, he had to ask me the question and then plug his phone into the computer that was recording the interview. So he would be asking me questions and once I said something he liked, he would say "ok, repeat exactly...
Chandu Thota, a Microsoft MapPoint developer has a service called FeedMap. A lot of people have FeedMap badges on their blog that shows the blogs around their location. The one thing missing from this service is GeoRSS tags, so I took a look at his API and created an RSS feed with GeoRSS extensions. My service is driven by query strings. You can pass in a place, or a lat and a lon, and also an optional count like this: http://timhibbard.com/where... or this...
GeoRSS is an extension of RSS that allows for geographic information to be associated with a blog post, an event, a gps location, a photograph or any other information where geographic information would help better describe the item. Several websites are recognizing the value of GeoRSS and are adding these extensions to their feeds. Most recently, Wordpress is using GeoRSS to add maps to their posts. One of the things that Jeff and I talked about on our roadtrip is adding GeoRSS tags to ESS. ESS,...
We are hanging out at Chris Williams's coffee / game / wifi shop, Reality Check here in Greenville. Jeff, John and I are doing some last minute polishing up of our talks for tomorrow's CodeCamp. Dru and Joseph are getting ready to do a podcast with Chris. The Where's Tim / PodcastStudio.net mashup has been quite a success!! The guy that traded a red paper clip for a house sent me an email talking about how he liked the technology and wants to use GPS on his future adventures. Very cool!! I also did...
The FileSystemWatcher is very useful when you need to be notified of changes made to a specific folder. You can raise an event when a new file is created, or deleted and you can also filter by file type and choose if you wish to monitor sub directories. The only problem with the object comes with large file transfers. The created event is raised as soon as the file transfer begins to your watched folder, not when the file has finished transferring. So if you need to move a file or pull data out a...
The FileSystemWatcher is very useful when you need to be notified of changes made to a specific folder. You can raise an event when a new file is created, or deleted and you can also filter by file type and choose if you wish to monitor sub directories. The only problem with the object comes with large file transfers. The created event is raised as soon as the file transfer begins to your watched folder, not when the file has finished transferring. So if you need to move a file or pull data out a...
Adam Kimber sent me an email yesterday saying that he was inspired by Where's Tim and created his own real time GPS tracking website called Where's Adam. Very cool!! I can't wait to see what else he adds to it
GPSReview reports on lost hikers in North Carolina that were found using the GPS chip in their cell phone after calling 911. The officers were able to put the hiker's location into their handheld GPS unit and find the hikers quickly
Those who read this blog know that over the last year, I've complained a lot about not being a true web developer and coming from the fat smart client world, some concepts I've ran into developing Where's Tim just don't make sense to me. I don't know if this is a sign that I'm starting to "think web" or not, but I was testing some new features in our GPS parsing engine and I typed in alert (javascript) instead of a messagebox.show. People that are learning a second language say that they know if...
I get an email every couple of weeks from somebody that has found Where's Tim and wants me to help find their lost cell phone. I always reply nicely and tell them that it is not possible to track a random phone via GPS based on it's number or ESN. First of all, if it was that easy to track something, I would be out of a job. Second of all, it goes against everything we believe in as far as allowing the trackee (is that a word) to be in full control of who watches them and when. Thirdly, it shows...
The other day, I blogged about talking with Terry Rombeck from the Lawrence Journal World. He wrote a good article about using tracking teens and if GPS is an appropriate tool for that. The article is in today's paper and online here. Digg it
Brady Davis, who has his own real time gps tracker here, is now syndicating his position on Where's Tim.The addition of Brady now makes the view all more interesting...well, if you're a GPS Google geek like me :)He also has an RSS feed, Google Earth KML file and even a mobile Where's Tim.I also need to thank Joey and Luci for their help this morning...
Terry Rombeck from the Lawrence Journal World just interviewed me about the different uses for real time GPS. We talked about Verizon and Sprint's family tracking services and how EnGraph uses GPS to add value to businesses. We also talked about potential privacy implications and that for consumers to fully accept GPS, we need to make sure our software adds value to the average persons daily life and that the added benefits outweigh any privacy concerns. The article comes out next Tuesday. I'm curious...
Carl Kurt, president of EnGraph now maps his real time location on Where's Tim using a real time GPS phone. He also has an RSS feed for his location, and a Google Homepage widget.Now we have three people being tracked in Lawrence (Carl, Clint and myself). To watch us all at once, go to Where's Tim, select "All Available" from the "Select person to track" combo box and push "Track" click here...
I've never been a big fan of Garmin. Mostly because when we started working with GPS a couple years ago, they snubbed Kyle and I when we tried to set up a meeting to see if there was anything we could do to help each other. They told us, "We don't work with other companies". I'm starting to become a fan though. I really like that they blog on a regular basis. Jeff likes his Nuvi and David likes his Edge. Like I talked about yesterday, their mobile product is good for the GPS market. What really won...
Dave Starr reports that Canadian insurance companies are offering rate discounts to their customers that will put a GPS black box in their vehicle. I think this is a good idea, and it helps promote the positive connotation of GPS. This is an example of GPS helping the consumer and we will need a lot more examples of this before GPS can rise above the "track my kid" status. I believe that the biggest market for GPS is consumer. Transportation companies and assest/vehicle tracking will always have...
311 has been my favorite band for about 13 years. I heard "Down" on the radio and just fell in love. Their music has changed a lot over the years, but their lyrics have always had a positive message. "Do what is right, don't be a jerk, don't pay attention to jerks". Growing up, I turned to music as most kids do to help find their identity and 311 was there to influence me in the right directions. My best 311 experience was 311 day (March 11) in 2002 in New Orleans. They played for almost 4 hours....
Clint Batman from ThinkGeo (a GPS company in Lawrence) is now showing his real time location on Where's Tim His url is http://timhibbard.com/where... His location is also available via RSS...
I'm rewriting a class in our GPS object that handles the geographic coordinates of GPS points. We need more flexibility in converting between types of coordinates. I'm torn between designing the class for performance or for ease of consumption. From an architectural point of view, the class should be easy to consume. So when somebody has this class loaded, they could use a .DecimalDegrees or .DMS property and it would take the existing data, convert it on the fly and spit it back. However, I know...
I am having lunch today with Clint Batman from ThinkGeo, another GPS company out of Lawrence. They have some additional hardware that might be useful for us and maybe we do some things on Where's Tim that he might find beneficial to his products. Plus the sweet salsa at La Familia can't be beat...
Kyle and Mark are heading down to Orlando tomorrow to be vendors at the CTAA trade show. This is a great opportunity for us to showcase our transportation and GPS software. Kyle talks about it on his blog. [EnGraph] [CTAA]...
Steve Walker was at my AJAX.NET talk at Wichita Code Camp. This is what he said: ...One thing that I thought was interesting about the presentation was Tim showing us how his company uses Google Maps and GPS to track items around the world in real time. In a VERY small amount of code, we were able to see where Tim was at and where he had been on his drive over this morning... Thanks Steve. People are starting to use the Where's Tim API for interesting things. One guy mashed up Where's Tim data with...
Clint Batman from ThinkGeo gave a great demo of his GPS software at the May Mixer at the Lawrence Regional Technology Center last night. They have a web based tracking system built in .NET similar to Where's Tim. They have some features that we don't, and they have a few things that they do better than us. We also have some features that they don't, like RSS feeds, mobile version, ASMX interface to our data, and WeatherBug integration. Hey Clint, give me a call sometime and we can sit down and see...
Dave Starr from GPS Tracking wrote a good post about the accuracy of GPS and the factors that influence the accuracy. [GPS]
This weekend, we migrated Where's Tim to ASP.net 2.0 and Google Maps API v2. We also added some "Get directions" functionality to SmartStart of Kansas Find a location page. And we just got dugg! [Where's Tim] [EnGraph] [Google Maps] [GPS]...
You can now view my GPS history for a date inside Google Earth. Go to Where's Tim Put a recent date in the Get History textbox and push "Go" Once it loads, click "View History in Google Earth" Thanks to Frank Taylor for the suggestion
Google Maps Mania reports about a guy that uses a camera mounted on his glasses and sends the feed to his website. Cool idea, I've been wanted to do something like that on Where's Tim and our newest client, LiveWave, does mobile streaming video over EVDO. Maybe they will hook me up!! Speaking of LiveWave, their RoverCam GPS site has been exciting the last couple of days. One of the guys put the phone on his boat and has been cruising all over the bay. [Where's Tim] [LiveWave]...
Matt Croydon blogged yesterday about Where's Tim. He got a new bluetooth GPS device. Turns out he is from Lawrence and is a programmer for LJWorld.com. He did the whatchamacallit thing a couple weeks ago as well as some other Google Map integration. I posted a comment on his blog that we should do lunch sometime. Maybe we can get them to create a Google Map of all the technology companies in Lawrence (there is two just in this building). [Google Maps] [Where's Tim] [Lawrence, KS]...
LiveWave is rocking with their new real time GPS web solution modeled after Where's Tim. It was pretty cool to watch them drive all over Newport, RI yesterday and I now know how other people feel when they watch me! These guys have been great to work with and we are working on some cool ways to integrate their existing camera feeds with the new GPS data and Google Maps. Stay tuned, we are going to be bringing some neat stuff. Kyle talks about it too. [EnGraph] [GPS] [AVL] [Google Maps] [Where's Tim]...
Like I talked about yesterday, We are building a real time GPS web solution for Smiths Detection. The pieces are starting to come together, but the GPS data still points to my current location since their Cloudberry account is not completely set up. The web site is at maps.livewave.net, check it out and watch for more changes this weekend. [EnGraph] [Where's Tim] [GPS] [AVL] [Google Maps]...
We just received a purchase order for a web based real time GPS system using Google Maps. It's exciting for me to see all the work we've put into Where's Tim starting to materialize into $$$. We have a couple other companies that are interested too, so hopefully we'll have a bunch of Where's Tim popping up on the internet :) Check back this weekend for a url. [EnGraph] [Where's Tim] [GPS] [AVL] [Google Maps]...
I started migrating Where's Tim to the v2 of Google Maps this weekend. They have provided good documentation so it wasn't too hard, even though I still think that I should not have to rewrite code because the vendor releases a new API. I understand rewriting code to get more functionality, but not to avoid my application breaking. Anyways, it works just about the same. The only problem I having is, I have a couple divs that are at an absolute position that display my current speed and mileage for...
I found another podcast that talked about Where's Tim. Apparently, I'm a "nerd with no life"!! It's by WeBeGeeky.com (which is down right now) and the mp3 is here (9 min, Where's Tim mentioned about 1:45 in). [GPS] [Where's Tim] [EnGraph]...
Garmin has started blogging. They even welcome feedback in the first post. Here is my first feedback for Garmin. Check your routing routine on Garmin Mobile, you ran me on almost a mile of gravel road on a trip from Lawrence, KS to Pella, IA. Don't get me wrong...it's a pretty good app, as I talked about earlier. It just needs a bit of work yet. Also, set up an ASMX or REST api so that developers with the correct authentication could access a person's GPS data...
The University of Michigan bus system is now online using GPS and Google Maps. Very coolFinally a GPS Google Mashup that is not "most stupid", maybe Christer will get a hold of this and update his list :) via ProgrammableWeb...
You can see where I currently am, but also now where I have been with the new cookie crumb feature on Where's Tim. It uses the standard large red icon to show my current location and the little blue icons (like on Google Ride Finder) to show where I have been. As my location changes, GPS cookie crumbs will be left behind. At anytime the crumbs can be cleared by pushing "Clear GPS Cookie Crumbs". Note that crumbs will only be left if my location actually changes...
I had a great time talking with Jeff and John the other night. As I listened to the podcast, I noticed a few things that I should clarify. Lat/Long = Latitude & Longitude, and x and y way of locating a geographic point on a map. For example, the Lat/Long of Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, KS is -95.25438, 38.954069. We used the AJAX.net library by Michael Schwarz. It is very easy to use and had wanted to talk more about it, but we ran out of time. All you do is modify your web.config, register your...
I just finished talking with Jeff and John from PodcastStudio.net. We had a great talk about Where's Tim, GPS technology moving forward, consumer adaptation, the negative misconceptions of GPS, how the web is opening up with API's and web services, and good old fashioned geek stuff in general. Jeff talked a little about it earlier. He might have it up tonight, so make sure to subscribe to their feed. Technorati Tags: Google Maps, Where's Tim, ASMX, AJAX, Podcast...
MilitantPlatypus linked to Where's Tim today. He says As of this post, he is currently golfing...at 1:00 PM...on a WednesdayI was actually at Carl's house having a marketing meeting. We are looking EnGraph's core products and spinoff products and deciding where to shift our focus to. Of course I think we should focus on GPS Control Room and Web based GPS applications like Where's Tim, but I am a bit partial :) I actually had a guy send me a message via Where's Tim. He said: Hi tim I wanna make one,...
New! Check out the new ClickOnce Where's Tim Tasktray alerter! http://timhibbard.com/where... When I tell people that I keep a GPS enabled Nextel phone in my car and anybody, at anytime can see my current position, they always ask, “Well, aren’t you worried about that?” I always say, “No, one day everybody will use their current location to assist them in their everyday lives.” While most people aren’t as comfortable with this level of transparency, I believe the social and business benefits of...
I'm headed back to San Angelo, Tx Sunday morning. This time it's just me and I'm driving. You can watch me travel through Big 12 south country on Where's Tim (send me a message if I look lost, I probably am!). Our Window's CE messaging application is done and we've worked with Cloudberry to get them more GPS data for less money (every byte counts when you're spending $0.66 / KB). It's going to be a good week. And I'm really looking forward to that club sandwich from Zentner's Daughter...
Kyle asked for it, so now on Where's Tim, you can get directions, and distance from anywhere to my current location. Push the "Get Directions to Tim" button, a dialog box will instruct you to select a location on the map, you click on the map where you currently are (you can still drag and zoom the map), and using AJAX, it will generate a Google map with driving directions and mileage from where you selected to my current location. Like I was talking about before, we want Where's Tim to resemble...
www.zive.cz wrote an article about AJAX and Google Maps and linked to Where's Tim and John Musser. It's all written in Czech and I couldn't find a translator that actually translated it, so I hope they are saying nice things. Technorati Tags: Where's Tim, GPS, AJAX...
My roommate Evan (you may remember him from here) took my Nextel this afternoon to go look at a new car, I was watching him on Where's Tim and I about died laughing when I saw him miss his turn, pull a quick maneuver and head in the right direction. Next week, Kyle and I are going down to San Angelo, Texas to deliver our EnGraph GPS solution. Sean is going to get a kick out of watching his 30+ vehicles drive around western Texas. Their region covers over 16,000 square miles. Our ParaPlan software...
Where's Tim has been getting a lot of attention lately. And as I watched Matt drive around the other day, I realized there is something very interesting about seeing him move across the map. When it comes to business applications, knowledge is money. Our ParaPlan Pro application supports geocoding, which means we can transform a street address to a latitude and longitude. So for each of our client's trips, the software knows when that person was supposed to be picked up, and the exact lat/lon coordinates...
It's official! EnGraph has begun development on the migration of our flagship product, ParaPlan to .NET. We have several little helper applications that are written in .NET, but our main core is still an Access front end hitting a SQL database. We are completely redesigning the user interface, business rules and database structure in the new ParaPlan, code named "Goldstar". We have been talking about and planning this for almost two years, it's very exciting to see it move to the next level. Kyle...
Garmin Mobile is a turn-by-turn navigation system for Sprint PCS phones. I've been using it with my Sprint phone for a week or so, and although I am not a big Garmin fan, I am excited about this product. It does everything you would expect from a GPS application. Closest restaurant, grocery store, golf course to your location, distance to your next turn, reanalyzing your route when you deviate from the suggested path. When you get out of Sprint coverage it handles it *ok*. It doesn't download the...
Using EnGraph's GPSParser, Air-Trak's Cloudberry AVL data and Google Maps, I built a web page that shows my real time location. It took a little over an hour to put together. That shows the ease of EnGraph GPS Management tools and Google Maps. Here's the page - www.timhibbard.com/wheresti...
I blogged a couple weeks ago about a SEHException we were getting in our Public Sub Main due to Application.EnableVisualSty... Basically the solution was to insert an Application.DoEvents after the EnableVisualStyles call. Well, that has been working until today (which happens to be the day I have to demo this to our owner). So I made EnableVisualStyles an option in the application. So now the code looks like this: If AppOptions.EnableVisualStyles = True Then Application.EnableVisualSty... End...
Following up on a previous post...here is some more information about our GPS solutions. The whole suite is really starting to take shape. We have a little more tweaking to do on our end of the software, and then we deliver it to a client in New Jersey in a couple of weeks...its very exciting...
We have been cranking on this project for a while. The following press release should show up at www.gislounge.com soon March 22, 2005 Houston, TX and Lawrence, KS Engraph, LLC, a leading developer of transportation software and Advanced Tracking Technologies, Inc. a leading manufacturer of GPS products, are pleased to announce the development of an integrated solution for transportation service agencies and providers. Custom software solutions provided by Engraph using ATTI’s GPS hardware...