another group that focus on GSM location

http://gsmloc.org/

• only support Nokia N60
• same concept with Navizon
  
• use GSM phone and GPS bluetooth
  
• share informaton(upload the loaction to the server and everyone can locate themself)
  

YES! my first program in VC .net

• I installed windows mobile SDK, now I can use the emulator in Windows Mobile platform.
• start with VC#, the book that I have right now.
  

First NavizonAPI Demo in VB .net

• need to install Windows Mobile SDK to emulate(downloading)
• need to generate the key and entering in the code.
• Navizon API tutorial
• 
  

.net compact framework

tutorial

• start programing w/o a PDA
• Visual basic & C# .net have smart device programmability.
• Windows Mobile SDK found!!!!
  

forum
MSDN


What is COM?

Navizon API

Navizon API for the Web and for the mobile

API for mobile

• w/o GPS
• infomation
• latitude and longitude of the user
• zip code, the city

• w/ GPS
• information
• position
• earn money

• platform
• windows mobile, symbian & blackberry(coming soon)
• license
• volume-based licensing
  
• use the credits on your account when you need to query a location
• a per-device licensing
• "all you can eat" access to the database

GPS and Camera

Sony CyberShot 專屬 GPS-CS1 衛星記錄器測試報告

GPS也可以這樣玩，一開始很好奇他怎麼跟相機結合，Bluetooth?
還沒看過相機有藍芽的。
原來是用時間來比對，GPS會一直紀錄位置和相對時間。只要相機和GPS的時間是一樣的，時間一同步，位置就跑出來了。

很簡單的道理，不過一開始，完全想不到：）

looks like Navzion got a good position ability

I went out with my PDA(without GPS) to play music while jogging. At campus, I try to stand in the middle of the large lawn that I think no AP will set up in there.

The location is almost exactly the same where I was standing!!

survey on PDA phone

ETEN

G500+ with internal GPS
http://shopping.pchome.com.tw/eten/detail.php?pid=BVZ00073
http://www.mobile01.com/topicdetail.php?f=61&t=203717

HP iPAQ

RW6828
http://shopping.pchome.com.tw/hppdaphone/detail.php?pid=AYY00120
http://www.mobile01.com/topicdetail.php?f=61&t=166262

應用：
雙方有GPS+加上手機功能，可以用即時簡訊傳送位置告知另一方座標，另一人就可以導航到他位置。

research on INetGIS

1. learning Microsoft .net
2. tools
   Visual C++
   Visual C#(C sharp)
   Visual Basic
   

• 藏識科技
• product
  
  • INet IMS(internet map server?)-網際網路地圖伺服器
  • 客戶端可以連結到伺服器修改網頁，網路速度可以負荷嗎？
  • Dynamic Modeling(追蹤功能)
  • 2D->3D
  • GIS OView-單機 GIS 圖資瀏覽系統
  • 優點：開啟速度快,TB可在3秒內開啟？
    
  • INet PDA SDK & Editor
    
  • ESRI-類似軟體
  • 利用.Net Framework開發
  • 可搭配GPS
  • 地圖可同時在PC及PDA讀取
  • "優點是開檔時不會將向量資料載入記憶體，在螢幕作畫或查詢圖素時才即時從檔案讀取，因此不會佔用記憶體。"

Funtions of Navizon

• Local search
• vedio
• without GPS, but internet must connected
• use google map to search , can't work in Taiwan(without street map)

• Geotages
• without GPS, but internet must connected
• special loaction tags you can created
• Group members can see the notice , pop up automatically.
  
  
• Buddytracker
• without GPS, but internet must connected

Where am I?

Now you can track me!
Click the banner.

When I turn on my PDA and load Navizon, in the place with wifi connected, I can report my position that was summited at last one.


the times is based on EST(GMT -5, 13 hrs difference).


*outdoor test

I went out to 室設系 to do a part time job and reported my position to the tracker.

Skyhook Wireless

Skyhook Wireless

• WPS requires no specialized hardware, works inside or out and acquires a location in less than a second.
  
  
• Skyhook Wireless sets up their own APs to provide location.
  
  
• Eye-Fi cool applications : Eye-Fi to Combine Wifi, Flash Memory
  
  1. you will not forget to pull out your sd card form card reader back to your digital camera.

• Socialight-when you are fooling around the city, message will automatically send to your mobile devices.
  brief introduction: 1 , 2
  
  
• Skype E911 plug-in beta
  call and show location
  
  
• Loki
  

collecting data of Aps around campus

• turn on my PDA with Wifi and bluetooth enabled.
• trun on my bluetooth GPS
  
• start to walk around the campus and search APs. Navizon will collect the data.
• after a circle of walk(409 APs located)
  
• back home, sync with my computer(some APs are showing in my Coverage)
  
• I can locate and upload my position in the campus without GPS
  

Urmap Hacks

用firefox+Greasemonkey以google map來加強urmap, urmap有完整的街道地圖功能。
Google什麼時後會做到台灣呢？
http://flickr.tw/projects/urmap_plus/

UrMap API

Navizon screenshots

1. The region must set to English or it will crash.



有三種定位方式





Navizon 在PDA中的定位，使用的是yahoo提供的mapquest pda版本。

放大後的最大畫面-無法得知精確位置。

Navizon's Blog

http://navizon.typepad.com/my_weblog/h

other resource about Navizon
Navizon: GPS without it
Audio interview with Cyril Houri -
CEO and founder of Mexens Technology - makers of Navizon solution

• it is not working for Palm Treo 700w and HP iPAQ hw6915/hw6515 phones????
  

Similar applications
Mologogo-Share your location in real-time
Intel experiments with Wi-Fi as GPS substitute
Wi-Fi used for location services

• more accurate than GPS/Cellular-based location Systems
  
• it can work inside the building
  
• "useful in helping voice over IP providers comply with a federal mandate to have location based services for E911"
• track stolen equipment
• Wi-Fi routers do not necessarily stay in one position forever

research on Navizon

http://www.navizon.com/

create group members -> know the location of all members

The concept


wifi/cellular towels/Gps, 3 kinds of signal can help us to locate.

GPS may not work on downtown area because of the high buildings, in other words, wifi/gsm can perform well in metropolis by the large numbers of hot spots with high density

10/3
try to use Navizon
I use the Dell X51v Pda with bluetooth GPS to locate my home.

和urmap的圖對照，因為現在google map沒有台灣的街道圖，比較難分辨相對地理位址，是因為
中原有比較大的明顯建築，才比較好分辨。
Navizon是以google map來作標記，如上圖的綠色水滴型標記。