DIY: Location mapping Part 3 – Google Earth live updates

Posted on 2011/10/09 by brandy

Trails Munich Horizon

This is part 3 of the DIY Location mapping. This time we will integrate with google earth to see live updates from our devices, we tracked with part 1.

Therefore I have had the tracking running for some days with an update interval of 15 minutes, so that I does not drain my battery too much. By enhancing the update frequency you will get fine grained location data.

We need to add the following PHP script to deliver a valid KML file, which is loaded by another KML file. The second KML file is loaded into Google Earth and does poll data via the PHP scripts to enable the live updates. Continue reading →

Dennis Richie *1941 – ✝2011

Posted on 2011/10/09 by brandy

The godfather of C and Unix died.

Thanks for all you left.

“Unix is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius – or at any rate a programmer – to understand and appreciate the simplicity.”

“The greatest danger to good computer science research today may be excessive relevance. If we can keep alive enough openess to new ideas, enough freedom of communication, enough patience to allow the novel to prosper, it will remain possible for a future Ken Thompson to find a little-used Cray/1 computer and fashion a system as creative, and as influential, as Unix.”

Train

Posted on 2011/10/07 by brandy

Train

Brew

Posted on 2011/10/06 by brandy

Just moved from macports to brew.

Steve Jobs *1955 – ✝2011

Posted on 2011/10/06 by brandy

Steve Jobs *1955- ✝2011

Windows

Posted on 2011/10/06 by brandy

Windows

Cloud

Posted on 2011/10/05 by brandy

Cloud

DIY: Location mapping Part 2 – Displaying the map

Posted on 2011/10/04 by brandy

Map Example

After the data collection part 1 we now want to display the collected data on a map. We use the google maps API to do so.

You need to have an API key for it, which you get at http://code.google.com/apis/maps/signup.html. Continue reading →

Nashorn

Posted on 2011/10/04 by brandy

Nashorn

DIY: Location mapping Part 1 – Getting the location data

Posted on 2011/10/03 by brandy

Location based services needs to be switched on

Inspired by the question in the http://fanbóys.org/ podcast, I will write down, what I have up and running for over two years now.

Goal: Have a background method running, which collects your location during the day and displays it on a map and has some export functionality.

Ingredients: An Apple iPhone, an Apple ID, activated Find My iPhone, a LAMP system and additional Google Maps. Continue reading →

Zuckerberg

Posted on 2011/10/03 by brandy

Rescue mission

Posted on 2011/10/02 by brandy

I had three primary partitions on my hard-drive:

Win7 NTFS (300G)
linux / (600G)
linux swap (30G)

As I needed more space on Win7 I deleted the second partition inside windows and grow the NTFS to incorporate the free space. Worked fine until the next reboot. This what I saw then: