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It's worth noting at this point that tangoGPS have released a new version (last week) and that it is absolutely brilliant. The old one is good, but has issues... this is 100% release candidate you get charged money for worse than this stuff. It is better than my acer satnav by a mile, and has the capability to pull any maps you see fit to use off the internet. Which means google. Now, google aint dumb, and they don't want anyone using their maps without their software too (and links, ads, etc...) so they change their URL format for the map repository with tedious frequency, but it's always possible to read the source code of the maps.google.com page and deduce the new format from there. Anyone wants the current one, PM me. seems like the faster it spreads on the net the faster they change it, they are GOOGLE remember? oh and just to prove that's a google map, I "borrowed" the sat imagery too Gps performing perfectly. no hangups, no bricking. Bluetooth working correctly. Fling the GPS on the dash, fire up the laptop, off you go.
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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scary levels of googlezoom and a scary accurate GPS track. I can even see what side of the road I was on Another neat feature, I can associate digital photos with the (saved) gps track (that's the green line...) based on their EXIF codes and place the photo at the point it was taken. I'll try that in a mo.
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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oh and it's got the same SiRFstar III chipset as the one I got on ebay for £4.16. So, same amount of effort to set up for 4 times the price then. Don't get me wrong, if I just wanted a sat-nav, ASDA sell them for about 80 quid.... but that really isn't the point. Don't get me wrong, I get the point of the thrill of the chase, getting something to work. It's just sometimes the level of effort per pound saved becomes too much when the item in question doesn't cost much. Worth it when what you are creating is something special - a cool little roadster from a rusted out 1950s Austin for example. No one would have said "Why bother when you can buy a tatty Rover 100 for 200 notes". But a GPS is a commodity item, that's why if it were me I'd have just bought one by now
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"Jeremy Clarkson, a man we motor enthusiasts need on our side like Lewis Hamilton's F1 car needs a towing ball and a Sprite Musketeer" My motor
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yeah, I see what you mean and tbh I was in maplin pricing up a replacement last week... but decided it was worth having another go at the one I already had instead. Oh, and I'm not trying to replicate a sat-nav.. I have one, I hate it. I'm not interested in being told where to go, I'm interested in where I've been
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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or even partition the drive and choose between them at boot time The ubuntu live CD installer will do this for you if you want it to PS, the live CD will run at near full speed if you put the image on a USB stick not a CD and use unetbootin (utility, comes for windows and linux) to make it bootable. Then you can use the USB stick as a hard drive and boot from it. PPS in case anyone doesn't know how, you can change the boot order from the BIOS (the first screen that appears, hit Del, F2, F12 or whatever it says for setup) Find the menu for disk drives and change the order so CD-ROM (or USB-HDD) comes above IDE0 (or SATA0), hit F10 to save and exit, wait while it boots up. I found that www.linuxliveusb.com/ was really good. Install it in windows and you just pick what version of linux you want and it goes download the image, then you just point to your USB key and go make a cuppa whilst it installs then reboot from USB. As a tip once of my pcs would not boot from the USB key no matter what order I picked. In the end I eventually selected nothing for boot device 1, hard drive for device 2 and left on the 'boot from other devices' tab and when it reset it went from the USB as it should, having found it in place of the missing first device. Odd but annoying! By the way SOC, now running a laptop and two old 'junk' pcs I stripped down as media centres all on Ubuntu after reading this thread. Really nice to have a pc in lounge and bedroom that can stream films and internet on demand from the main pc, all made out of spare parts. An old P3 with maybe 1/2 gig is more than able to stream video with Ubuntu.
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I used to work in a large shop that sells sat navs. A 16 year old got transfered to the sat nav department. His patter was that this Satnav was the one he used all the time. What...on his 5 minute bike to work? He left to work in a bank. Just a short time before the banks had all that trouble. Might have been his fault. :/
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I've spent all evening playing with tangoGPS ;D there is yet another subversion.. more fixes and improvements all the time. This is rapidly turning into the ultimate answer to "why didn't you just buy a sat-nav" , lol You don't even need a GPS to play with it. Mine is switched off and in the bag, I'm playing with the mapping and features. For anyone interested, source tarball is available for download heremain site is www.tangogps.orgnow, features.... even if I wake up in wallaroo, I can find a hotel... It can plot routes based on google info, and turn them into a track. Green line is a route from my house to the Ace cafe (I got the co-ords off their web page) Also, see the "people" icons? There is a friends server that logs the position of other people using the software. it's set to "for fun" and showing all the other people who are playing with it ;D but more practically, you can set up private groups, and it's possible to message via the server too. Walkie talkies etc are fun for group roadtrips, but this pwns it big style ;D
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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I just noticed the mess my desktop had got into... archicves, random downloaded files etc all vying for space they don't deserve over the top of the default background. So it's tidy up time. Out with MC (cos it's quick) and move the files I want to appropriate folders, delete the ones I don't need (like the archives, no point having them once you unpacked it) then make a couple of icons for TangoGPS and Exaile (music player) and use one of yesterdays test photos as a background.
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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Ok, I've found something we can have some fun with ;D Click here for a web based map showing public tangoGPS locations. I am somewhere on that map of the whole world (NOT my real location, lol) so have a look and see if you can find me. Click the people to view their names (you are looking for SOC) zoom in and tell me where I am.
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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More progress ;D I've been testing the changes to obdgpslogger, and it works To recap, the problem was that the car didn't report its PID numbers. It goes kinda like this, tool queries car ECU, ECU returns a list of supported PID numbers based on its capabilities. El scorpio was saying "00 00 00 00" which is computer for "I know nothing" so the tool assumed the car had nothing to report. Now it doesn't. If it receives no info, it queries them all in turn and notes which ones produce some data. just plugged the numbers into a spreadsheet for now, but I'm working towards a full sqlite DB of GPS and car data (and photos)
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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Ok, I've found something we can have some fun with ;D Click here for a web based map showing public tangoGPS locations. I am somewhere on that map of the whole world (NOT my real location, lol) so have a look and see if you can find me. Click the people to view their names (you are looking for SOC) zoom in and tell me where I am. maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=50.349731+6.975117&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=13.052763,38.979492&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=16 Feed analysis is part of what I do for a living
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"Jeremy Clarkson, a man we motor enthusiasts need on our side like Lewis Hamilton's F1 car needs a towing ball and a Sprite Musketeer" My motor
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very nice ;D I take it you didn't find me by randomly clicking around then?
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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This is rapidly turning into the ultimate answer to "why didn't you just buy a sat-nav" , lol To be fair, that wasn't what I said. I said "Why didn't you buy a commodity USB GPS receiver?" My answer to the satnav question is this: an incredulous "Your wife didn't come with a user guide?"
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"Jeremy Clarkson, a man we motor enthusiasts need on our side like Lewis Hamilton's F1 car needs a towing ball and a Sprite Musketeer" My motor
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Last Edit: Dec 6, 2009 8:41:42 GMT by herald948
"Jeremy Clarkson, a man we motor enthusiasts need on our side like Lewis Hamilton's F1 car needs a towing ball and a Sprite Musketeer" My motor
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This is rapidly turning into the ultimate answer to "why didn't you just buy a sat-nav" , lol To be fair, that wasn't what I said. I said "Why didn't you buy a commodity USB GPS receiver?" My answer to the satnav question is this: an incredulous "Your wife didn't come with a user guide?" To be equally fair, that wasn't actually aimed at you, lol, and no, she didn't. Can't find a manual or any drivers online either, lmao.
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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yup. (For people going eh?grep is a command that searches text) same effect could be had in GUI land by just opening the .php with the browser and using the search function to find "SOC"
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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Bit more road testing done ;D anyone who was following my link knows where I went.. GPS and tango now working together perfectly. Google maps complement it well and the tango interface is actually quicker at pulling and displaying google imagry than google is. trouble is I have a message saying I have less than 1 min battery time left time to buy a car charger.
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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Ah, sweet sweet fix of AC powah..... lol Although the positioning side of things is working nicely, I have a problem with the car diagnostics logging Ford put the socket in a stupid place so I keep knocking the plug and interrupting the connection so I think I'll be either moving it or making a lead so I don't have a 5" long adapter next to my right leg all the time. Good news is when it is logging it is doing it faultlessly. Interestingly I have two speed readings one from vss (car) and one from the gps and they differ... by around 10%. 70mph GPS speed is 77mph VSS speed. Speedometer agrees with VSS, no surprise there but is this the "safety" margin of under-read that is allegedly built into most cars or is my GPS setup over-reading? More data and I'll be able to tell So, why am I doing all this? Call it research if you like. I like to know how stuff works, this sort of logging and reporting gets talked about a lot (did you know that tesco delivery vans have linked engine data and gps? It's so the drivers can be given individualised advice on driving more economically) not to mention the possibilities if I can condense things into a tracker box ;D Things that were still sci-fi 10 years ago are now doable at home. I remember being at that cutting edge with home computers (I built a kit zx81.. I was 10 at the time. Everyone at school was like "wow you have a computer? can it tell you facts on demand or let you talk to people on the other side of the world?" err no. it says "(C)1981 sinclair research" but I digress...) anyway. I've always found the best way to learn is to do. So in order to better understand the capabilities of "big brother" I like to see what is possible, and how easily. Same reason I still hack About 5 years ago I built a working ANPR system (now there's a tech area neck deep in bovine odure)... I'm thinking of adapting that to the eee as well. Just for fun of course.. I mean it's not like I have mobile internet and access to DVLA records and the MID is it?
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To get a standard A40 this low, you'd have to dig a hole to put it in
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