[Symbian-hacks] Got a bluetooth GPS? Help me out!

[Matt Croydon]

Hey Christopher,

For what it's worth I'll try to run this around Lawrence a bit so  
that your service can include both Boston AND some random town in  
Kansas :)

--Matt

On Apr 27, 2006, at 12:12 PM, Christopher Schmidt wrote:

> Hey Everyone --
>
> I'm giving a presentation on geolocation using GSM cells at Where  
> 2.0 on
> June 13th. I've done a fair amount of work in attempting to create a
> service whereby you can look up your latitude/longitude using your  
> Cell
> ID (n1,n2,lac,cid) code.
>
> However, I'm only one person, and thus far, I've only been able to
> gather data for the Boston area -- not the most interesting service in
> the world, if it only covers where I drive ;)
>
> So, I've come up with a new version of my old 'autostumbler' code,  
> which
> stores the gps information on the memory card in the phone
> ("E:\gps.txt") and then allows you to upload this data.
>
> There's a number of reasons for this:
>  * Battery usage when uploading every point is very high
>  * Bulk upload allows you to save on bandwidth costs in non-unlimited
>    bandwidth situations
>  * Less dependance on network availability at all times
>
> The new code is at http://svn.crschmidt.net/symbian/stumblestore.py .
> I'm going to be spending a bit more time today making this fail
> gracefully in various error conditions -- for example, at the moment,
> there's no 'catch' for if you don't have a flash card in your  
> phone, so
> it won't work in that case -- and then packaging it up as a .sis.
>
> In the meantime, however, if you'd like to help me generate some data,
> you can do so by running the code on your phone: start it, and it will
> have you select a GPS. Hit "Stumble", and at some point later, hit
> "upload" to upload your gps log.
>
> This does send me your IMEI. This is for grouping purposes only: I  
> want
> to know how many people are helping me out. I have no intention of
> making the IMEI public.
>
> In the next week or two, this will become a publicly available
> webservice (rather than running under crschmidt.net) through which
> you'll be able to retrieve your uploads, and do other cool things with
> the data. I'm interested in providing this as an alternative to the  
> high
> priced provider-based solutions, so be aware that I do not plan to  
> keep
> your data locked up in any way. I just haven't had time to get the
> public facing stuff up yet, and I'd like to start collecting data.
>
> Thanks in advance for any help,
> -- 
> Christopher Schmidt
> Web Developer
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