real time tracking from home
Fri, 12/26/2008 - 11:55am
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Hello,
I just purchased the GArmin 255W...my 1st GPS.
I am wondering if there is a feature available (PC software) that would let my family track my location in real time on line (i.e. ...making the 19hr trip accross the country...thought it woulod be cool for them to go on line and to be able to see where I'm at via my new Garmin device?). Is that possible? (some kind PC app for real time Garmin device tracking?)
Thanks
No
Hello,
I just purchased the GArmin 255W...my 1st GPS.
I am wondering if there is a feature available (PC software) that would let my family track my location in real time on line (i.e. ...making the 19hr trip accross the country...thought it woulod be cool for them to go on line and to be able to see where I'm at via my new Garmin device?). Is that possible? (some kind PC app for real time Garmin device tracking?)
Thanks
You own a GPSr where the "r" stands for receiver. It receives signals, but sends nothing out. There are cell phones and free online tracking available.
Nuvi 660 -- and not upgrading it or maps until Garmin fixes long-standing bugs/problems, and get maps to where they are much more current, AND corrected on a more timely basis when advised of mistakes.
Get a Blackberry Curve
And the program for it called gpsED. That will do what you want done.
There are other cell phones and brew applications that have the capability to do this was well.
*Keith* MacBook Pro *wifi iPad(2012) w/BadElf GPS & iPhone6 + Navigon*
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Here is one option:
http://www.poi-factory.com/node/18728
America Moves By Truck --- Streetpilot 7200 & OOIDA --- www.accutracking.com userid= poifactory password= guest; "Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up, then sell it. If it don't go up, don't buy it."
Re: real time tracking from home
grush recently found this for TomToms:
http://www.tomtomfireeagle.com/clients
Krieger.
nuvi has no live output
A nuvi has no real time position output, even when connected by USB. I just tried it with my 750 by using "Safely remove hardware" to take it out of USB mass storage mode and switched it on, so it is in navigation mode. Satellite acquisition took some time indoors. But once it locked onto satellites, I fired up nRoute and it could not find any gps on USB. If Garmin nRoute cannot find it, I doubt if any other program could.
Both my eTrex (USB) and 10x (Bluetooth COM port) work with nRoute. Of course for anyone to track you real time, besides an app to read your position, you would need some way to get that to someone wanting to access it (nearby WiFi or mobile data device).
nuvi 750, eTrex Legend HCx, Mobile 10/Palm TX, GPS 45
APRS for ham radio
Since we've established that the gps receiver is a receiver and doesn't send anything, and that most current car GPS systems like the nuvi don't have any real-time position output, I thought this would be worth mentioning.
In addition to the obvious cell phone (including Iphone) applications that incur on-going and not insignificant charges, Ham radio operators have a system called APRS that, among other uses, is often used for tracking vehicles which have gps equipment and an armature radio. This involves a small inexpensive gps receiver, a very simple interface (sometimes built with a single IC) and a mobile ham radio. These systems broadcast their position and are picked up by other ham radio stations listening for the broadcast and from there are forwarded to locations that collect and distribute the data. If you have a ham radio license (easy to get now and Morse code is no longer required), once you make the initial investment in the equipment you can let you family or anyone else track you with this system. Their are websites like findu.com that will display position reports for anyone using this system.
Interesting . . . . .
Ham radio operators have a system called APRS that, among other uses, is often used for tracking vehicles which have gps equipment and an armature radio.
Do you have any links where someone can read / learn more about this?
Finding APRS links
Do you have any links where someone can read / learn more about this?
Well, I mentioned findu.com, but here are some more links:
http://www.google.com/search?q=APRS
www.aprs.org
Well, I mentioned findu.com, but here are some more links:
http://www.google.com/search?q=APRS
And the first one (http://www.aprs.org/) is just what I was looking for.
Thanks!
GIYF
And the first one (http://www.aprs.org/) is just what I was looking for.
Google is your friend. Hope you spotted that there is a Wikipedia article too.
There are quite a few products in this category
Just Google "gps tracking" and lots of companies and products will pop up. Companies can track their trucks, parents can track their teenagers, etc. One such example with an online map is below.
http://www.alltrackusa.com/Realtime_History.html
Another example (not sure if
Another example (not sure if its it, but try it):
http://www.expertgps.com/gps-receivers/Garmin-nuvi-255W.asp
APRS
Go to www.arrl.org they can give you all the information on getting your ham license. For APRS all you need is to get your technician license. As an over the road truck driver, APRS has been a lot of fun. The radio I use is the Kenwood TMD-710A. This is a link to Kenwood so you can see what it is. http://www.kenwoodusa.com/Communications/Amateur_Radio/Mobil...
Best of Luck!
Not real-time but fun none the less.
I recently returned from a 5 week trip to Florida with my wife and 2 of my adult children and a 2 year old grandson. This was my first long trip with my 260W which I got for Christmas.
Track logs only recently caught my interest. After reading G. Hayman's how-to on his website I downloaded my trip log to my PC and started messing with it. It was actually 3 files with about 1000KB each. After finally getting the logs to Google Earth I can say it was worth the effort.
Flying those routes again was hoot. I also am sending these files to other family and friends for them to travel in Google Earth to the same places we did for our 5 week trip. If I was really on the ball I would try to geocode some of the many pictures I took and attach to the log.
http://home.comcast.net/~ghayman3/garmin.gps/index.html
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