Al115
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Reged: 08/19/05
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This is going to be truly excellent... if I can just make it work.
OK I've installed as specified and the server will set there burbling to itself, spewing out NMEA co-ords (screenshot1.jpg, attached).
However the co-ords never seem to make it to the nmea.kml file, which is still full of demo locations (Australia, anyone? :-) )
Any suggestions as to what might be going wrong? As a possible pointer, the installation steps:
Open your favorite browser.
Type in address http://127.0.0.1/ and the default.kml should turn up on your browser.
Type in address http://127.0.0.1/nmea.kml and my nmea.kml should turn up on your browser.
don't work for me - instead I get my IIS localhost pages. Any suggestions?
Also, could you please add COM ports 6-10, for those of us using USB-to-Serial adaptors...?
Thanks for a fantastic little app.
Alastair
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Al115
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Reged: 08/19/05
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OK, I've played a little more and I manage to get a spectacular error (screenshot2.jpg attached)...!
Has anyone seen this before?
Alastair
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Al115
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Reged: 08/19/05
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OK... I've also tried putting the files in my IIS root (wwwroot) folder; that way I can indeed view the nmea.kml file through my web browser, but it still doesn't update with my actual information (it remains with the pre-populated data)...
So I'm going to take them out of the webserver root and put them back in Program Files somewhere, for now.
Alastair
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jakedundee7
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Reged: 08/14/05
Posts: 21
Loc: Dundee Scotland Moscow
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Hi John, Thanks for the wee tool very much appreciated all I need now is to get my head round it as I am new to the GPS scene and any tips would be most greatfull I have a wee pda loox 720 with a gps that slips into the miniport. I will read and try the prog out. I have Tom Tom 4 installed but I doubpt if that will help with your prog. I gather from what I read that I will be able to track my pda with the software you provided. I will experiment over the weekend thanks again.
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ivanavitch
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Reged: 07/16/05
Posts: 40
Loc: Brisbane, Australia
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AI115
It seems you already have a server running on your machine. I don't know what an IIS local server is but that sounds like the problem.
I set the address so that it would work on any machine (as long as there is not a server running already)
regards
John Scott
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BikerRay
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Reged: 07/27/05
Posts: 79
Loc: near Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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A bread-crumb trail might be interesting, but there are other ways to do it... I tend to post-process the data (as my PC is fixed, and with the gps attached, it doesn't exactly move much!) i.e., I take the track log, convert it to a kml file, and display that. I use it for road trips and ultralight flights.
I'm also working on an app that takes APRS data (ham radio-enabled vehicle tracking, see findu.com), and display it on GE, but I haven't figured out all the tricks yet (still trying to write a file to 127.0.0.1!). If I get it going, I'll post a link to the app on the BBS.
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Ray - GPS plotting software http://users.xplornet.com/~perkins/GEtrax/
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Al115
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Reged: 08/19/05
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Sorry, IIS is Internet Information Server, Microsoft's web server.
My main problem seems to be that the .exe is not feeding my GPS co-ordinates to the nmea.kml file. Have you come across this issue before?
Alastair
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GpsPasSion
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Reged: 08/18/05
Posts: 2
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Excellent, just what a GPS fan needs ;-)
Probably obvious to most but it took me a while to figure out you had to activate time-based and view-base refresh for the cursotsto have an impact. My laptop does jump up to 100% CPU use though with these settings.
My setup is an IBM X31 and Bluetooth GPS by the way. With 3G it might be possible to navigate full time !
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southwesteuropean_Antonio
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Reged: 08/22/05
Posts: 93
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sorry for my basic question, but I'm just a beginner.
If mi Google Earth doesn't run without internet connection, will this gps-tracker run without that connection? I have not connection outdoors.
Thanks in advance.
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kevinengel
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Reged: 08/21/05
Posts: 3
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AI115,
Having the same symptoms you are having...the nmea strings are coming in, my co-rds show up in the status bar, and My Marker puts me somewhere in Australia,and if i let it run too long the 0.8 integer shows up about a hundered times.
I guess it because when i open IE and go to http://127.0.0.1 i cant bring up the default kml. ..... any suggestions
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