Ok... Looks like it is time for a thread like this.
Since my relatively recent investment into -what I beleive to be- one of the coolset PDA/GPS/Phone ever... the HTC TyTN II... I started to look at the possiblity of GPS tracking.
What I wanted to be able to do is fairly simple.
Push a "button" on my cool phone to allow my wife and other relatives/friends to follow the trip -she/they didnt wanted to be part of- on a computer map in real time in the most easiest way.
The GPS information sent by SMS/Email was not enought to fullfill such requirements. Such idea would need direct link between the PPC application running on my WM6 phone and the web via Wifi/GPRS/3G.
Benefiting of an -inexpensive- unlimited GPRS/3G phone subscription, phone bill is not my concern.
Then I came accross the following systems:
* 3dtracking: http://free.3dtracking.net/home.aspx
* trackthisout: http://www.trackthisout.com/TrackMe2.html#
Both system offer free tracking system.
You download their application, register an account and your on their map... real time... although the TrackThisOut free application is limited to 15min usage but it is much more than a simple real-time tracking.
3DTracking is really tracker oriented, being able to run in background, sending 1 signal out every minute (not faster but slower possible).
Few hours after checking TrackThisOut, I bought the licence... It has more features than I was planing to develop myself in the event of not being able to find anything like this.
Anyway, here is the start of the thread... lets hear what you guys have found and use right now.
Since my relatively recent investment into -what I beleive to be- one of the coolset PDA/GPS/Phone ever... the HTC TyTN II... I started to look at the possiblity of GPS tracking.
What I wanted to be able to do is fairly simple.
Push a "button" on my cool phone to allow my wife and other relatives/friends to follow the trip -she/they didnt wanted to be part of- on a computer map in real time in the most easiest way.
The GPS information sent by SMS/Email was not enought to fullfill such requirements. Such idea would need direct link between the PPC application running on my WM6 phone and the web via Wifi/GPRS/3G.
Benefiting of an -inexpensive- unlimited GPRS/3G phone subscription, phone bill is not my concern.
Then I came accross the following systems:
* 3dtracking: http://free.3dtracking.net/home.aspx
* trackthisout: http://www.trackthisout.com/TrackMe2.html#
Both system offer free tracking system.
You download their application, register an account and your on their map... real time... although the TrackThisOut free application is limited to 15min usage but it is much more than a simple real-time tracking.
3DTracking is really tracker oriented, being able to run in background, sending 1 signal out every minute (not faster but slower possible).
Few hours after checking TrackThisOut, I bought the licence... It has more features than I was planing to develop myself in the event of not being able to find anything like this.
Anyway, here is the start of the thread... lets hear what you guys have found and use right now.