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Blackberry GPS Tracking Tool

June 24th, 2009 by Jason Ernst

About

This project was created in anticipation of a road trip across the country that I am taking in July – August 2009. I recently bought a BlackBerry 9530 which comes with a built-in GPS unit and I though it would be cool to be able to track my progress across the country. The Blackberry sends periodic GPS updates to the website which uses a database to keep track of the data it receives. The data is then overlayed onto a Google Map which is then used to determine distances to major landmarks around the country.

Features

  • GPS Location Tracking
  • Geographic Photo Gallery
  • Live Travel Statistics
  • Simple User Comment System
  • Simple Visitor Tracking

Live Demo

For a live demo of the project see the website I have set up for it at www.jasonernst.com/trip.

Source Releases

I plan to release the source after it is more mature, the trip will be the test run for it.

 

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One Response to “Blackberry GPS Tracking Tool”

  1. gravatar Jason’s Computer Science Blog » Blog Archive » Back after a long hiatus! Says:
    August 21st, 2009 at 3:31 pm

    [...] have been paying attention to my projects page you will have seen a blackberry GPS tracking tool (http://www.jasonernst.com/projects-index/blackberry-gps-tracking-tool/) that I created. This summer I got a chance to test it out across the country as I went on a 42-day [...]

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