[Symbian-hacks] Yet Another Bluetooth GPS Program

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 01:19:06PM +0000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> 
> On 16/1/2006, "Christopher Schmidt" <crschmidt at crschmidt.net> wrote:
> 
> >NMEA_info.py -- http://www.livejournal.com/users/gagravarr/104793.html
> >
> >Basically, what i was planning to release as a for-fee program -- see
> >discussion on Swhack mailing list[1] for some discussion of that -- but
> >eventually decided I'd just work on releasing for free.
> 
> Hehe.  Well I think there's little need for anything like this in the
> for-fee space.  AFTrack does all this and more and isn't expensive:
> http://www.afischer-online.de/sos/AFTrack/
> (though, inscrutibly, the author doesn't tell you how to actually BUY
> the thing -- I ended up emailing him to find out how to buy.)

Hm, I was unable to find this after searching for a while, so I assumed
the target space was empty - an apparently bad presumption.

> The main service you (and Nick) have provided is working code that others
> can hack on.  This is what I plan to do!

Note that I haven't released any code.

> Considering I've never coded in Python, and I'm not much of a coder
> anyway, it will help me enormously.  I plan to make a custom moblogging
> tool that also works with Google Maps to show where I did the posting. 
> Goes with my travel plans for this year, you see.
> 
> >Unfortunately, the experience of releasing this has made me rather
> >despondant on further development on the mobile platform: anything I do
> >seems to be ignored, or redone, and better, by someone else. The effort
> >I put forth for releases is too much to just have wasted - GPSDisplay[2]
> >was only downloaded by a total of 3 people, and the less than
> >overwhelming subscriptions to this mailing list is pretty indicitive of
> >what I feel is the general interest level in the stuff I've been
> >writing.
> 
> Considering GPSDisplay has only been out a few days, I wouldn't be
> surprised it's only been grabbed by a few people.  Give it time!

It's the least popular program I'e written in that respect, however. All
the past stuff I've worked on has received dozens or even 100 hits to
the source in the first 2 days. "There's nothing new under the sun", as
they say, and the stuff I write is no exception.

-- 
Christopher Schmidt
Web Developer